About
Valerie has over 27 years of experience in the real estate industry. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1987. She started her career in real estate in Atlanta and received the Golden Eagle Award for Agent Of The Year for 1995/1996 and 1996/1997 for COLDWELL Banker (formerly Success 2000 Realty) under the tutelage of her first broker Sharon Benjamin. Valerie relocated to Orlando in 1997 where she has received a number of awards such as the Master Ruby Award with Century 21 Sunshine Realty, #1 in sales for Razzani International Realty, #1 in sales for Sommerville Real Estate Group from 2009‐2016. She was featured in an issue of Orlando Magazine “Hot 100” Real Estates Best Agents and “Hot 100” Best Real Estate Agents Hall of Fame for 2012. Valerie was named among the top 7% of real estate agents in Orlando and was voted “Best in Client Satisfaction” by her clients in Florida Homebuyers Magazine. Her outgoing personality and warm bright smile helps put you right at ease and helps you understand why her favorite charity is The Smile Train, an organization that thru the efforts of caring and dedicated physicians and nurses, gives children born with cleft palate deformities the ability to smile in most cases for the first time in their lives. Valerie prides herself on personalized attention and adapting to each clients needs. Patiently listening to and educating her clients on the vast array of options available to them is of the utmost importance to her as well as making sure the client always knows she is just a phone call away. Customer “total satisfaction” equals results and 99% of her business is referred!! Valerie believes that most of her success is due to a good support system, namely her husband of 31 years, Ken, that allows her to extend herself for her clients.