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Care First, Close Second: Why Homebuyers Love Working with Realtor Tina Andrade

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  If you’re thinking about buying or selling a home in West Tennessee or North Mississippi , you don’t just need someone to open doors. You need someone who will treat your move like it’s happening to their family. That’s exactly how Realtor Tina Andrade approaches her work. Based in Millington, Tennessee , just outside Memphis and home to Naval Support Activity Mid-South , a major U.S. Navy base with more than 6,500 personnel, she has spent nearly 26 years helping families, veterans, and investors find home across 22 counties in Tennessee and Mississippi .  This is Tina’s story—and what it’s like to work with a “care first, close second” Realtor. Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-mdJWkRsU4Q Or on your favorite podcast platform here: https://www.betweentwodoors.com/episodes/ From Property Manager to Trusted Guide Tina didn’t stumble into real estate. She moved from Arkansas to Memphis in 1997 as a property manager . Bought her first...
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AI Is Changing EVERYTHING!! Realtors and Home Buyers Here's What You NEED To Know

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If you’re a Realtor or a future homebuyer, AI is already in your world—even if you’ve never logged into ChatGPT , Gemini , Grok , etc. On a recent episode of Between Two Doors , I sat down with the guy I call my AI guru, Chris Johnstone , CEO of Connection Incorporated and the brain behind one of the leading AI platforms for loan officers. He’s been helping mortgage and real estate pros build tech-driven, referral-based businesses for over 16 years, so he’s had a front-row seat to how fast AI is changing our side of the industry. This blog is the “CliffsNotes” version of that conversation—focused on one thing: What AI is doing through loan officers to help Realtors and homebuyers right now. Listen or watch the full conversation here:   https://youtu.be/rfNIyVKp6aE All Episodes: https://www.betweentwodoors.com/episodes/ The Big Shift: From Googling to “Hey, Chat…” For years, the home search started on Google or Zillow . That’s still huge—over half of buyers now find t...
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You're ETS is less than 12 months and you want to buy a home using your VA Loan

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  VA Loans and the “12-Month Purgatory” Myth: How One Veteran Turned a No into a Clear to Close Every week, I talk to service members who are planning a big transition: retirement or separation from the military and a move “back home.”   Recently, a veteran came to a loan officer after being denied by multiple lenders. He was: Still on active duty Within 12 months of retiring Relocating back home to Ohio Sitting on a strong amount of savings for a down payment Most lenders gave him the same answer: “You’re in a kind of purgatory. We can’t use your active-duty income because you’re getting out, and you’re too far away from retirement or a civilian job to count that, either.” Even the loan officer in this story initially pivoted to a conventional investment property idea— not a VA loan—because that’s what they’d always been told. Then one phone call and one paragraph in the VA Lender’s Handbook changed everything. The Guideline That Changes the Gam...
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