Lake Nona · Southeast Orlando
A Lake Nona and Orlando real estate agent who starts with your questions, not a listing link
Buying or selling a home is mostly a series of decisions made with incomplete information. My job is to close that gap — to tell you what happens next, what it will cost you, what could go wrong, and what we do about it if it does. Then the decision is actually yours to make.
Where you might be right now
- "We're thinking about it." No timeline, no pre-approval, just a feeling that the house has stopped fitting. Perfect time to talk.
- "We found one we love." Now it's about the offer, the inspection period, and not overpaying for a house you're emotionally attached to.
- "We need to sell first." Sequencing a sale and a purchase is the whole game. It's worth mapping before either one starts.
- "We're moving to Orlando." You need someone on the ground who can tell you what a neighborhood is actually like on a Tuesday.
How I work
Real estate isn't complicated. It's just unfamiliar, and nobody explains it.
Most of the stress in a transaction comes from not knowing what's normal. A repair request isn't a crisis. An appraisal coming in low isn't the end. Knowing that in advance is worth more than any negotiating trick.
Straight answers
Including the ones that cost me a sale. If a house is wrong for you, or now is the wrong month to list, you'll hear it from me first.
You always know the next date
Every contract runs on deadlines — inspection, financing, appraisal, closing. You get them in plain language, in advance, not the morning they expire.
Problems surfaced early
Roof age, insurance, permits that were never closed, a survey that doesn't match the fence. These are findable before they're expensive.
Actually local
Southeast Orlando isn't one market. The village, the street, the school zone and the drive to work all move the answer. Generic advice fails here.
Two guides, written properly
Whichever side you're on, here's the whole process before you commit to anything
These aren't brochures. They're the step-by-step of a Central Florida transaction, including the parts that go sideways and what gets done about them.
Buying a home in Lake Nona or Orlando
Financing before touring, defining what you actually need, writing an offer that holds up, the inspection period, insurance and the roof, the appraisal, the walkthrough, the closing table.
Read the buyer's guide
For sellersSelling a home in Lake Nona or Orlando
Pricing without guessing, the prep that returns money and the prep that doesn't, photography and launch, reading offers past the top number, surviving the inspection response, closing clean.
Read the seller's guide
Where I work
Lake Nona, southeast Orlando, and the communities around them
Lake Nona is a master-planned community in southeast Orlando, in Orange County — and it isn't a single place. Laureate Park lives differently from Eagle Creek. Village Walk lives differently from Northlake Park. The Isles of Lake Nona is different again. Same zip code on a map, genuinely different daily lives.
Add the Lake Nona Town Center, the USTA National Campus, the KPMG Lakehouse and Medical City, and you get a corner of Orlando where a lot of people's work, gym, doctor and dinner are all inside a few miles. That changes what a house is worth to you, which is the only valuation that matters when you're the one living in it.
- Laureate Park
- Village Walk
- Eagle Creek
- Northlake Park
- Isles of Lake Nona
- Moss Park
- Lake Nona Town Center
What I'll ask you first
- Where do you actually have to be? Work, school, family, the gym you'll genuinely keep going to.
- What does the house need to do? Home office, a real yard, a downstairs bedroom, a garage that fits more than a car.
- What's the timeline made of? A lease ending, a school year, a job start date, or nothing at all.
- What's the number you're comfortable with? Not the maximum a lender will approve — the payment you'll still be relaxed about in year three.
Who I work with
Different situations, same principle: nobody signs anything they don't understand
First-time buyers
You'll get the process explained twice if you want it explained twice. First-time buyers ask the best questions, and the biggest mistakes are all preventable — waiving the wrong thing, stretching to the top of an approval, skipping the insurance quote until it's too late to matter.
Move-up and move-on sellers
You've outgrown the house, or it's outgrown you. The work is sequencing: what the sale realistically brings, what the next payment looks like, and how to avoid owning two homes or none.
Relocating to Central Florida
New job, new state, and a fly-in weekend to decide something permanent. We build the shortlist before you land, tour the streets and not just the houses, and I tell you what the commute is like at 8am.
Before you reach out
Questions people ask before they call
Do I need to be ready to move before I get in touch?
No. A lot of the most useful conversations happen months before anyone lists or tours anything. If you're trying to work out whether a move makes sense at all — what your house might do, what the next payment looks like, whether waiting helps — that's a good reason to talk, not a reason to wait. Nothing about a first conversation obligates you to anything.
Does it cost anything to work with a buyer's agent?
Representation is set out in a written buyer agreement before you tour homes, and that agreement states plainly what the compensation is and who's expected to pay it. How buyer-side compensation works has changed across the industry in recent years, so it's worth having the conversation early rather than assuming what used to be true still is. I'd rather explain it up front than have it surprise you at the closing table.
Can you help if I'm buying and selling at the same time?
Yes, and it's worth planning properly. The two sides have to be sequenced — contract dates, financing, and where you sleep in between. Options include a sale contingency, a post-closing occupancy agreement so you stay in the house briefly after it sells, or bridging the gap another way with your lender. Working the sale and the purchase together is usually the difference between a tight transition and an expensive one. The seller's guide covers the timing in detail.
I'm moving to Orlando from out of state. Where do we start?
With your life, not with listings. Commute, schools, whether you want a walkable town center or a quiet cul-de-sac, and how much yard you actually want to maintain narrows southeast Orlando down fast. Then video tours and a shortlist built before you fly in, so a two-day visit is spent deciding instead of orienting. Start with the service areas page for a sense of how the neighborhoods differ.
What do you need from me to get started?
A rough timeline, a rough budget or a rough idea what your home might be worth, and an honest sentence about what's driving the move. That's genuinely enough for a first conversation. Everything else — pre-approval, a pricing analysis, a walkthrough of your house — comes after, and only if you want it to.
Tell me what you're trying to do
A first conversation is just a conversation. No pressure, no obligation, and no one adding you to a drip campaign for the next four years.