I am a Florida native. The only place I have lived outside of Florida is Waycross, Georgia, where I presently live.

Growing up, I lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and I graduated with two masters’ degrees (majoring in business, marketing, and computer science) right there in Jacksonville.

During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I completed three graduate level courses and graduated with a Masters of Business Administration degree (with major coursework in international business & management) at Amberton University. (I had started taking courses at Amberton prior to retiring in May 2017 from my last teaching position, which was as a professor at Pasco-Hernando State College.)

In July 2000, I had begun my real estate career with a large real estate company in West Palm Beach, Florida, and I have continuously been working and studying in some capacity in both the professions of teaching and real estate since then . My teaching career had begun prior to that in 1977 at Matthew Gilbert Seventh Grade Center in Jacksonville, Florida, where I taught career exploratory classes in marketing. Fast forward to the mid-1980s. While pursuing a teaching career at Palm Beach State College where I was an Assistant Professor of Office Systems/Computer Science courses for 11 years, I started acquiring homes and became a landlord. This is what lead to my interest in getting a real estate sales license so that I could pursue real estate sales as a career.

Kelly Property Expert, Inc., was created in 2015 and operated part-time from my home in Port Richey, Florida, while I was working as a professor at Pasco-Hernando State College full-time. I moved to Waycross, Georgia, after retiring from my then current full-time teaching position and brought my company with me. In September 2022, I retired from listing and selling real estate and became an independent contractor working as a real estate & research/communications/writing consultant.

My philosophy in life & work

My philosophy in life, which cannot be separated from where I live and work, is always to strive to have both a home and a career where I can pursue my passions. I have been true to my philosophy all of my life and have always felt a calling from God to be living and working in the various locations and professions at the various stages and times during my life.

My experience as a REALTOR®
July 2000 to September 2022

I became licensed as a real estate agent in 2000 and licensed as a real estate broker in 2002. (I gave up teaching in 2001 for full-time work as a REALTOR®.) During my first 2-1/2 years working as a REALTOR®,  I worked for a large independent real estate company out of a West Palm Beach office. In 2003, I started my own company. In my own company, I closed about 900 sales transactions in six years (2003-2009).

In 2008, I moved to Waycross with plans to get licensed in Georgia and to move my office to Waycross, but a I had a calling to go back into teaching to a job that literally fell in my lap. I wasn’t really planning to return to teaching, but the position in Waycross opened right after I moved to the area, and it felt like a calling back into the teaching profession. 

Fast forward. I left Waycross in 2011 and returned to Florida for a different teaching position, which was at Pasco-Hernando State College. However, I still did not abandon real estate. I kept up with my real estate credentials and even added to them during those teaching years. Then in 2015, while still teaching, I started Kelly Property Expert, Inc., from my home office in Port Richey, Florida.

Fast forward another couple of years. On May 3, 2017, I retired from my position as a Professor at Pasco-Hernando State College and then returned to Waycross, Georgia. In moving back to Waycross, I moved my company, Kelly Property Expert, from my home in Port Richey to a small office in the Historic Rail Depot in Downtown Waycross, where it was located until December 31, 2019. Upon closing my office in Waycross, I moved it to the Arlington Profession Building in Jacksonville, Florida, about 75 miles from my home.

My Code of Ethics and promises I make to you

I approach my work with both buyers and sellers of real estate as a consultant/teacher offering guidance as it is needed. This is the same approach I use in all of my work as a research consultant as well.

Embodied in all I do both personally and professionally, I adhere to a code of ethics that opposes discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status sexual orientation, gender identity, and national origin. In addition to my adherence to anti-discrimination, I also promise to go ABOVE and BEYOND for you!

My Passion

To get a glimpse into my philosophy of life and work, check out my speech on passion which I gave at both the morning and afternoon commencement ceremonies on the day I retired from teaching (May 3, 2017) at Pasco-Hernando State College.

My YouTube Channel

Check out my youtube channel and subscribe to see videos on what I am doing. Here is a sample that is posted on the channel:

The following https address takes you to my channel where I post videos. However, you may have to copy and then paste the url into the address bar to reach the site. If you just click on it, it may not work.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGLyZUYJKCC2xquCUhqT0w

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College Degrees & Credentials

Masters of Business Administration – Amberton University

Masters (Computer Education) – Jacksonville University

Masters (Business Education) – University of North Florida

Bachelors (Vocational Education / Marketing) – University of North Florida

Associate of Arts (Business / Office Systems) – Florida State College at Jacksonville

Office Accounting Certification – Okefenokee Technical College (now Coastal Pines Technical College)

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