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Christine Smith Orlando Realtor

05/17/2026

Just $384,500 with a $10,000 incentive to use towards your closing costs or to lower your interest rate.

Impossible to find Pulte floorplan with this premium lot location.

Steps from the pool, meticulously maintained and ready for you to move in for easy living.

4 beds
2 baths
1,844 sf
2 car garage
Corner lot with no rear neighbors. Steps from the community pool.

Comment DELAND to schedule a tour.

05/14/2026

Avoid this seller mistake!

Understand vanity metics vs meaningful metrics.

Meaningful metrics requires meaningful marketing.

Meaningful marketing doesn’t come from hitting the easy button.

It comes from curated marketing target delivered to the RIGHT people. And getting those people to take meaningful actions.

Saves, shares, inquiries, showings and offers are the meaningful stuff that’s creating the right activity to get your home sold.

05/09/2026

my unhinged bio from ChatGPT

I’m a real estate agent, which means I professionally absorb other people’s stress for a living while casually carrying around enough market knowledge to ruin every HGTV episode.

I’ve walked into homes that smelled like wet dog and broken dreams and still had to say, “Okayyyyyy… so here’s what we’re working with.”

I can spot a bad flip in approximately 3.7 seconds, know when a seller is emotionally attached to their granite countertops from 2004, and have mastered the art of smiling politely while mentally calculating roof age, insurance nightmares, and future regret.

I help buyers and sellers make smart moves, not emotional ones. Which means sometimes my job is less “dream home fairy godmother” and more “financial bodyguard with good lighting and a coffee addiction.”

I will absolutely hype up the right house… but I will also talk you out of the wrong one like your slightly unhinged older sister who reads contracts for sport.

Somewhere between the negotiations, the moving boxes, the lender meltdowns, and the group text chaos, my clients usually become friends. Probably because trauma bonding through a real estate transaction is a very real thing.

05/06/2026

These results aren’t exactly “normal” for this market… but they’re becoming pretty normal for us. 👀

Because we don’t just throw a home on the market and hope for the best.

We spend weeks (sometimes months) helping sellers strategically curate their homes to be irresistible to buyers.

Part science. Part art. Part gut instinct.

Especially in a market where buyers are constantly second guessing everything and full of uncertainty.

And while each of these sellers was thrilled to sell for top dollar… the REAL win was speed.

Every one of these homeowners had pressure around timing. They needed certainty. Momentum. A real plan.

We could not afford to participate in “average days on market” territory… but we also weren’t willing to leave accessible equity sitting on the table.

📍Longwood, FL
Sold in 6 days • $50K over asking
30 open house attendees • 20+ offers
AND the buyer covered all closing costs too. 💥

📍Lake Pickett Estates – Orlando, FL
Sold in 9 days • Multiple offers • 97% to list price
Several buyers from our own buyer network submitted offers on this one.

📍SE Palm Bay, FL
Even with intense new construction competition, this 2022 home went under contract in just 6 days with minimal seller concessions.

✨If selling feels overwhelming or timing feels high stakes for your family, let’s talk about how my home selling system + a custom plan for your situation will have you hitting the market ready for a meaningful result.

04/24/2026

Self-worth drives everything.

And it’s our responsibility to quiet that little voice that tries to convince us we’re not enough . . .

by speaking life into ourselves and into the people around us.

Our kids.
Our friends.
Our team.
Our clients.

Because this isn’t just a nice idea . . .

It’s how people start to and continue to believe in themselves.

It’s how people believe what they desire is possible.

These two things kept tugging at my heart from the speakers on stage last week at Girls with Grit in Austin.

🩶 Self-worth
🩶 Speaking life into people

And the connection between the two is crazy real . . .

When people speak life into us, it builds our self-worth in real time. It can pick us up from the dark and bring us back to the light so fast.

The uncomfortable truth in this …

Not everyone around you will do this for you.
Not because they don’t care . . .

but because they may not be doing it for themselves yet.

So here are some things worth saying more often
to yourself and to the people in your world:

▫️I don’t need permission to take up space.
▫️I’m not stuck, I’m recalibrating.
▫️I’m allowed to want more and go after it.
▫️This is part of the process, not a setback.
▫️You’re making smart decisions, even if it feels uncomfortable.
▫️Raise your standard,you’re ready for it.
▫️I expect more from you because I see more in you.
▫️I trust your ability to lead this.
▫️I see more in you than you’re giving yourself credit for.
▫️Don’t forget who you are.
▫️I believe in you, always.
▫️I’m proud of how you kept going.
▫️I know this feels big but you can handle big things.

You might be the voice someone remembers if they are struggling with not being enough. .

Go speak some life into someone special today. ✨

04/22/2026

Pillows [when used correctly] are the finishing touch that makes a space feel warm, inviting… and irresistible to buyers.

This home? Multiple offers in under a week and on track to be one of the highest price-per-sq-ft sales in the neighborhood.

Details matter. Always.

04/21/2026

Sandra walked in with a $285,000 pre-approval from a traditional lender.

Every home she actually wanted started with a 3.

Most agents would’ve told her to lower her expectations.

I told her to trust me.

Then we found it.

▪️Off-market new construction (never hit MLS or Zillow )
▪️ Corner lot, no side neighbors
▪️ Steps from the future town center
▪️ All appliances included
▪️ Blinds package included
▪️ Low HOA community
▪️ Avalon Park Tavares, 155 acres on Lake Hermosa with community parks and resort style pool

Sandra’s schedule in law enforcement is no joke.

So we ran point. Inspections, builder communication, all of it.

Then the construction manager quit a week before closing.

We didn’t flinch. New team, same standard. Every punch list item handled before she signed.

Here’s how the deal played out

▫️Off-market access before anyone else saw it (thanks to our builder relationships)
▫️ 3.99% fixed interest rate locked in (no fluctuating rate)
▫️ Builder paid ALL closing costs (minus ~$3,000 in HOA + prepaids)
▫️ Only 3.5% down payment
▫️ Secret $1,000 Hero seller credit I negotiated for her service
▫️ Monthly payment: $2,200 (her goal was to stay under $2,300/mo)
▫️ Final purchase price: $331,450

Total to get into the home —->less than $11,000

A $46,450 jump above her pre-approval. 😲

A payment she loves.

A home her family adores.

Sandra is still in shock.

There’s a sweet spot between patience and strategy . . . that’s where I come in.

Relocating to Florida?

Frustrated with what your budget “says” you can afford?

Tired of losing out on homes that feel out of reach?

Let’s talk.

During your home buying consultation, I’ll break down my full arsenal of tools, tactics, experience and relationships I use in my offer system for my VIP buyers I use to bend the market to hit YOUR monthly payment goal.

04/20/2026

Buying a home is hard. 🏡

But so is everything that happens when you don’t.

If any of these hit home, let’s talk.

Send me a DM and we’ll figure out your next step together.

04/19/2026

If I’m thinking it … everyone else will be thinking these things too when they walk thru your home.

These are just a few of the super solvable things I help sellers address before they put their home out to the world to be judged.

04/02/2026

You know that feeling when you walk into a home and immediately start mentally moving your furniture in?

Yeah… it’s that kind of house.

✅Brand new kitchen (2026) that actually looks like Pinterest in real life ✨
✅Quartz countertops + ceiling-height cabinets (because we don’t do short cabinets here)
✅High ceilings + exposed beams + skylights = light, bright, and not boring
✅Split floor plan so you can love your family… with space 😂
✅Pool + private backyard = your new personality trait this summer 🌴

And let’s talk about the stuff buyers actually stress about:

🎯New AC (2024) ❄️
🎯Roof (2020) ✅The living room opens straight out to the pool through big sliders, so whether you're hosting, relaxing, or pretending you're on vacation… it just flows.

📍 Located in Longwood near Altamonte Mall + Cranes Roost Park
Easy access to Interstate 4 so you can get where you need to go without losing your mind in traffic (well… mostly 😅)

Real talk…
Homes with this much character + actual updates don’t sit around.

💬 Message me “SHOW ME” and I’ll get you inside before someone else calls it theirs.

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Orlando, FL

Website

http://www.BestHomesOrlando.com/

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