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In this episode of Between Two Doors, Amelia Valdez shares her inspiring journey from her roots in Ennis, Texas to becoming a nationally recognized real estate professional and trusted community leader. As a bilingual Associate Broker with City Real Estate, Amelia has built her career on relationships, results, and a deep commitment to helping families achieve the dream of homeownership.
Throughout the conversation, Amelia discusses what it truly means to serve clients beyond the transaction—guiding them through one of the most important financial decisions of their lives while helping them build long-term wealth. She also breaks down how her ABR and SRS designations allow her to strategically support both buyers and sellers at every stage, giving them confidence and clarity in a competitive market.
Amelia’s passion for community shines through as she reflects on her years of service with organizations like the Main Street Board, Lights of Ennis, and the Ennis Greater United Way. She explains how these experiences have shaped her leadership style and strengthened her belief that real estate is not just about property—it’s about people, opportunity, and building a stronger future for the community.
This episode is a powerful reminder that success comes from consistency, service, and staying rooted in purpose—while helping others step confidently into their next chapter.
Creators and Guests
Guest
Amelia Valdez
Amelia Valdez is a bilingual Associate Broker with City Real Estate, proudly serving the Ennis, Texas community. Recognized as one of NAHREP’s Top 250 Hispanic Realtors multiple years, she specializes in helping families achieve homeownership and build long-term wealth. Deeply committed to community service, Amelia blends professional excellence with a passion for strengthening the people and places she serves.
Producer
Stan Carver II
Stan Carver II is the producer behind his brother Nate Carver’s Between Two Doors podcast, bringing a blend of marketing savvy, technical craftsmanship, and video-editing polish to help each episode shine. As third-generation real estate investors, Stan and Nate share more than a family bond—they’ve rolled up their sleeves together renovating dilapidated properties, learning firsthand what it takes to turn potential into value. That shared experience fuels their on-air chemistry and off-air collaboration, with a brotherly camaraderie that’s equal parts hard work and genuine fun. For Stan, it’s a joy to support his Favorite Mortgage Guy's vision—translating great conversations into professional, compelling content that helps their audience make smarter moves in real estate and homeownership.
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know we all in this Ellis County, Texas.
And if you're looking to meet an awesome
real estate agent
that is but knows
the area is originally from Ennis, Texas.
I would like to introduce you to
Amelia Valdez.
Hey, I'm Nate Carver and welcome
to Between Two Doors.
Hey, Amelia.
Hello. How's everybody today?
Great.
Welcome to the between $2 podcast.
How are you doing?
I'm good, I'm good.
All right, so it's pretty sunny day today,
so I think it's a good day.
I did y'all get the, the false spring?
Yeah. Or a little bit of it this morning.
It was 19 here.
So nice.
It was a little chilly.
Yeah.
But we had we had a nice couple,
almost a full month of spring.
And then we got a freeze
the last few nights.
And so the garden.
Was supposed to be 96.
So it'll be summer.
Yeah.
My garden is toast.
I'll have to replant, but that's okay.
It had. Yeah.
It wasn't very,
very well established anyway.
So. Yeah.
So you're
you've got roots in the community.
You've been there.
And how long have you been
a real estate agent?
This is my 17th year
of being a real estate agent.
Good for you. And you.
You've racked up some awards
and some acclamations along the way.
And, good for you. Yeah.
Bilingual?
Yes, sir.
Spanish and English.
That's correct.
And Spanish and English. Yes.
Nice and good.
Lots of lots of underserved communities
there that you will
that I help out.
So welcome to the podcast.
I'd like to know.
So what was it like growing in Ana's
growing up and Ana's.
You know, and this is a small town.
You know, it was it was it's grown
a lot in the past five years.
We've had a lot of growth here.
Hope it continues because we we need it.
We're kind of in the middle of,
I call it, and we're in the middle
of some pretty good communities.
We have, of course, Canada or South.
We have Dallas to our north,
we have Loxahatchee to our west.
And, you know,
we have Kaufman County to the east.
So we have a lot of people that
come through here that are going places.
And then we have people that, you know,
live here that go to those places to work.
So, I feel like we're we're a middle,
a middle ground for people.
And also,
we're very, unique in that we're kind of
just like we still feel like
we're just a little small town, you know?
What were
some things growing up there
that really influenced you?
You know, what we have here,
you know, that we have some large likes,
which that was really popular
whenever I was a child.
Now they're more, you know, for,
empty nesters that are just RV traveling.
We do still experience the lakes, but,
some of them have,
closed their gates, due
to, you know, attendance.
But there's the major ones are still open.
But, when I was a child, we had
six of them, and they were all open.
The small ones and the big ones,
now, just
the big ones are open,
the small ones are closed.
But we have,
the our bluebonnets,
which attract everyone.
They have for many years,
even as, as a child, that's
what we grew up around, was bluebonnets
and having to go out to the park
and play in the bluebonnets.
And then we also just had,
you know, small town
living, you know, we had a local downtown
that everybody would shop at.
The stores were all downtown.
So we have that and
we had a little theater here in town too.
We still have all those things
are just a little bit different.
Yeah, I know plenty of people
that go for the bluebonnet photo op, and,
there I will be out of town this week.
I'm going to do that.
And, you know, whether
they're going to go into your county
and, get the photograph. So.
Yes. That's right.
So there's fishing lakes, boating.
Fishing and boating lakes. Yes.
Do those any
well it's Texas
sea bass stripers cropping.
And so on. Yes.
Yeah yeah yeah I and there have been
crappie fishing down there.
Maybe someday.
Well tell me, some of the highlights.
I guess it's nice that you
if you're trying
to describe the county
or that area to someone who's in.
Yes. Things
that you would really want to point out,
but that you're you're probably about.
Yeah.
If I was talking to a client
that was not from this area
and wanted to come and see what Anna's had
or wanted
to probably explore living in Ennis,
I would just say, you know,
we are a small, we I call it small.
We're not too small, but we're a small
local town that, thrives on community.
And, we try to have,
you know, a lot of attractions as.
And we have community events
that keep us, focused on our neighbors.
And we have things for the kids that,
that you can just walk out your door
and come downtown to do,
we have quality of life,
entertainment type stuff
like sitting around listening to music or,
you know, going to the parks,
and there's some things going on there.
We have a lot of school.
I mean, a lot of youth leagues
that the kids are involved in soccer,
baseball, the football,
our school is, ran fairly well.
It has, you know,
the kids have a lot of opportunities here,
in a lot of different programs
I can participate in.
And then we have a lot of historic homes
that are in in us
that people like to live in.
And, we have downtown, loft living,
work live, zones here in downtown
that people are attracted to also.
And then, of course,
you know, we're just 30 minutes
from downtown Dallas and,
and it's not a congested ride.
It's, you know, if you were,
you know, this far,
which is, you know, equivalent of around
35, 40 miles from a Dallas,
if that was your equivalent from, a town
going north from Dallas,
your commute is a two hour commute.
Our commute is literally a 35
minute commute from downtown.
Yeah.
On the on the north side. And Dallas.
Yeah, you're right.
The commute.
You got a time? Yeah. Anytime.
You got to get on the road
when you need to get it.
Because if not, you're gonna be
sitting there.
Yeah. But you started.
You got your start in real estate
back in 1998.
Tell me what your your journey there was.
How do you a unique start you got
you got into it with construction, right.
That's correct.
Yeah.
You know, I worked with my family,
owned, my family,
my father and my, siblings were,
involved in construction.
So we, we were involved in that
pretty much all of our lives, born
and raised and, with my father being part
of, you know, a concrete, trade.
And, so my brothers followed
in their footsteps,
and others were masonry or framers
or concrete guys.
So, you know,
we were just all in the construction
field,
and that's how I basically got started.
But, then, you know, went into getting,
my real estate license and,
doing more of the,
selling to the clients
instead of just developing
and letting the agent take over.
And so what we were developing.
Yeah.
As a what your what were some things
you, you learned early on
that really helped you out
and helping with buyers?
Being that closely connected
to the construction and builder piece.
You know, I think the knowledge
that I had for, a lot of my clients
was very helpful or being, informed
or knowing the process of doing something
or getting getting the process
done is a huge, benefit.
You know, if you know what it's going
to take for you to have to get your loan.
What, all of the pieces of the puzzle
are you going to have to have to be able
to get qualified
to get a loan to do construction,
or if you've already look, you're already
looking at a new construction
and that's already built.
And what the process is to have
to make your mind at ease, the product
you're buying is going to last you
the time that you will live there.
And, you know,
you look into the permitting part,
the inspection, the parts that they played
in, and then follow up
with your own inspections
and, detailed to the work
that was put into the home
you're trying to purchase, right?
Are you seeing a new construction
now in your area?
Yes. We have a lot of construction
going on here.
We have, three new subdivisions,
large set of subdivisions in the area.
And they have, we have a lot of building
going on around here.
So there's a.
Lot of custom homes, like you're.
Buying that more track home, builders.
Now,
you know, the custom homes that we do
have, them, they're sporadic.
They're more custom land builds.
So people are wanting, you know,
getting a developer build their home on
20 acres of land or,
you know, 3 to 4 acres of land.
But it is a custom built home, right?
Yeah.
And I always I've
when I talk to people that are looking
to get the financing for that, I'm like,
make sure you got a great realtor
like you, on their, on the,
their team and a great lender
on their team and a nice cohesive plan.
That removes a lot of the chaos.
Yeah, a lot of misunderstanding,
really, that leads to chaos.
Because if you understood
the process, it's so much simpler
than, having, you know, not knowing
what the next turnaround step is.
Do you get a lot of VA down in that area?
Our veteran.
Yes. We have a lot of VA down here.
Yes, ma'am.
Excellent. Yeah.
I've been doing I've been doing,
VA construction or the one
time closed vehicle or construction
vehicle on the actual name of it.
And, and it's certainly an experience
anyway, good for you.
But you didn't.
That's in there.
So let's talk about
let's talk a little bit of bilingual.
I get enough,
I know enough to get myself in trouble.
You read it.
Great. I.
I know too much,
so I will get me in trouble.
Yeah.
A few years formal education in Spanish.
And then three years in Greek.
And so between the two I make,
I can mess up a whole bunch of things.
Yeah. And that for you.
Do you have an idea percentage wise?
Your test,
your clients that are, you know, maybe
their Spanish is their first language.
And it spoke
about how extremely important
that is for you being able to
negotiate and read contracts with them.
You know, the reason that is exactly
the reason why I got into it.
I mean, yeah, I do, and actually trying
to not just target and only have that
as my client base, because it didn't
actually work out that way.
It, I was seeing a lot
or having a lot of clients
or customers calling me
after they purchased a home
and not even know what their actually
their obligations were or what their
they had, and warranty
of a warranty, availability, or you know,
how they were to get their homestead
exemption or, and not that
it was the fault of the other agent
that, you know, that worked with them.
It's just they probably just missed it
or didn't
really like, comprehend what was going on.
And, you know, just didn't
get that translated
to them in a way, in a manner
they needed to hear it.
And, so, you know, you know,
I just need to
have something that people will feel like,
okay,
I'm going to go to her because I know
she's going to explain to me,
and I do my best to try to make sure
that when we're reviewing something,
you know,
I give them the information they need
and then translate it to them
in the proper ways.
And then also, you know, that checkpoint
we have, Spanish that forms,
the Association of Realtors has that
some of the majority of our forms are in
they are translated Spanish.
We just can't use them.
But I do keep them on hand and
and give them to, you know, my customers,
give them to my clients and tell them
this is what I'm reading here,
and you can read along with me in Spanish.
And I'm gonna explain to you in English,
in the English form, to you.
But we cannot sign the documents
in the Spanish form.
You have to have them in English.
So at that, I feel that's a little bit
more of a comfort zone for them.
And, you know,
and then I also let them take, you know,
like, and take them and be able
to read them in reference to them and
and know that they can always ask me or,
you know, for questions if they need to.
Write a run into it every.
And yes, in the five different states,
licensed in people,
you know,
English isn't their first language.
Maybe it is or that or maybe their,
their preference
is a language that they're
most comfortable in, whether it's Spanish
up here in Dallas, it's Farsi, Arabic,
and the list goes on. And.
Oh, no, you know,
I took a class, a six month.
Basically, it was a six month,
class at that, metro Texas, offering.
And it was and there were so many
different people that took the class
and so many different languages
that were being spoken.
And so it's amazing how, you know,
and we are here to
we can serve so many different
people's needs, with us being able
to implement those things and,
and put them into a process
where people can understand them,
where they can become property owners.
Yeah.
It's just it's removing
one more barrier, ownership.
And, you know, I'm a huge advocate
of people home owning homes. Yes.
Wherever they've come from, whatever
their background
is, you know,
if that that's their dream to own a home.
Now, I'm here to help care.
And so are you. And I love that. Yeah.
That you, us, me.
Also the percentage that, probably,
you know,
the percentage of people that I help.
So my client base is probably around,
I'm going to say it's probably 6040.
Based.
This is that first time home buyers,
you know.
You know that it is.
I would say that
that's probably the majority of my,
but here
now, going on 17 years of doing business,
now I'm getting the repetitive clients
or getting their children
and a family member
of someone that that needing the home.
Yeah. And they're upgrading or moving or
they're moving into their new
dream home
and they're turning that program
and they segue way
talk to me about generational wealth.
In the time that you've been a realtor,
I'm sure you've seen this.
You know, I'm a big advocate of that.
You know, I tell, you know,
because I was,
you know, I came from a Hispanic family.
We are traditions are move one place,
and that's why you stay.
Those are the you know,
those are the kind of roots that,
you know, that have been instilled
in our community for many, many years.
And, you know, so those barriers,
I call them barriers because I have,
you know, you have
they're the kids of these, people
that I've known for a really long time
that are now able to purchase homes, and
they're wanting to make changes or update
or move up into something different.
And you have parents that,
they're
like, yeah, you don't need to do that.
You have a home,
you need to stay where you're at,
you know, don't spend any money
that you don't need to spend.
But, you know, I try to tell,
you know, advise my clients, you know,
if you're going to be, you know,
purchasing something, you need to look
at the situation that you're in
and about and evaluate that situation.
And if it's something that you know,
you can't.
I'm actually in the middle of it right now
with, a family,
if you're wanting a certain type
of property and it's not in your budget
to do, then you can look to the next thing
on your list and say, okay,
this is the thing I can afford,
and how am I going to be able to take this
and make it be
worth something where I can
then later on, five years,
eight years,
sell it and make money out of it
and move on to the next,
and move on to our next stage in life,
which it may be our forever home
where we set our roots,
where our children are going to grow up,
which are the grandchildren
of the parents
that I attended to in the past. And,
to these
these young couples that,
you know, have been renting,
you know,
they've been renting for ten years,
you know, and that money is gone
out the window that, you know,
and then I just say, you know,
this is what you need to look forward to,
and then let's move forward
on how you can make that happen.
You know,
I have some clients that every 3 to 4
years, they,
they, start
processing to either build something new
and then sell what they have.
And with their
the equity they make out of the home,
they put it into a new home
that then turns around
and gives them money to invest in other
other business in real estate,
you know, either buying lots
or where they can build
later on, or buying business businesses
that they could get into things like that,
that they're investing that money into.
Wow. Yeah.
I just I just had a client,
she's renting, she's paying $2,600
a month, and I just qualifier
for a $300,000 purchase price.
Her monthly payment,
matched to rent payment at $2,600,
$300,000 purchase price in the area
that she's wanting to live in.
So I factored in taxes, property taxes,
and, for homeowner's policy.
She's out looking at houses now.
She's both of our own.
Her first home and not be renting anymore.
Yeah, but I mean, on Sunday,
I was showing Sunday to a couple,
and they, we actually,
we had seven homes to look at.
Six of them were in their budget.
One of them wasn't.
And,
they really like the one that wasn't,
but, you know, and they said,
you know, they were at, you know,
three, $3,000
limit on their house payment.
They didn't want to be above that.
And, I'm sorry, there are a $2,500 budget
per house payment.
And and the house
it was not in their budget
was a $3,000 house payment.
And but it had a structure,
a little barn type building
that had an office space inside of it
that was heat and air.
And as you know, you're in the trade.
You know, people in the trade,
you can, you know, dresses up,
lease it out and make your $500
like you don't want to be in over budget
in this out of this space here.
So you can still have what you love
and you're going to have to supplement it
with, you know, taking this space
and making it to where
somebody can lease it from you and then
you can afford your payment, you know,
we talked about it.
You know,
we looked at our other homes and,
you know, we they eventually
still ended up staying in their budget.
They found something that was adequate
and they were happy with, and they liked
just as much as the one
that was out of their budget.
So, you know, there's so many options
that people can explore
and not have to live on. Rent.
That's why you got to have a qualified
real estate agent knows
what she's talking about that,
you know, knows her market and and knows
how to is thinking in that space
that they're, you know,
they got their own lives to live.
They're not, you know, necessarily
brainstorming
real estate options like, you know.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah.
So let's talk about your career.
You have been recognized multiple times,
by the H.
Rp's top
250 Hispanic realtors in the nation.
Tell me about that one.
Tell me what that stands for.
But then tell me what that means to you.
Yeah, that's not rep nor rep is National
Association of Hispanic Realtors.
You know, and I tell everybody this story
when I first was nominated,
I sit in the movies
with my family watching a movie,
and I get a message on my phone,
and, and I, look at
it, and then I send it to my broker,
and I was like, is this real?
And he's like, I don't know.
And he said, we'll look at it on Monday.
I said, okay, so came to work on Monday
and we started looking into it.
And he's like, well Bobby dang, it's real.
And you know,
that was the first I ever heard of it
apparently is a nationally recognized,
organization.
And, they they're, very,
very laser pointed
on generational generational wealth.
And they have,
a lot of different types of groups
that will help you, you know,
boost your business and be mentored
and, get involved with community service
and all of these other things.
So, you know, found out
that someone nominated and I and I won
and, didn't won the first place,
but I did when I was one of,
I think, in Texas that year,
I was, one of five or so,
and I was the only one in Dallas
Metroplex area.
But that's all for you.
Let's put that into some context.
So nationwide, there's about 1.5
million realtors nationwide,
that one Hispanic.
They have to be. Yeah, that's.
Out of that 1.2 million,
only 40,000 realtors are, Hispanic.
And that's right now 250.
That's amazing.
That's big, big time achievements.
Good for you.
But you also hold some other
some other accolades.
The Avion. Yes.
Or what is what does that mean
to home buyers and sellers?
You know.
You know, whenever a home
buyer seller looks at that, you know,
and I do feel like people
do check into those things and,
and look and research that now even more
and are more those
all those types of information,
engines are available
now more than ever with ChatGPT and,
with AI that's out there,
that they can get that information
at a couple clicks of a button.
And, so it is very helpful to have it,
and to, to, to,
you know, push yourself as an agent
to try to receive
any of those type of,
accreditations or,
you know, being being notarized for that.
You know, it's, it's, it's,
it's something to have,
but it also
is something that a client can see that
you're out there doing the job
and you're working and showing
that you're out there working
and trying to help
as many people as you can to be property
owners and business
owners or investors or whatever
they're out there trying to get done.
The what's, what's something that you,
in your opinion,
separates a good realtor,
from a great realtor?
You know,
I think a good realtor does their job.
They do it to the best of their knowledge.
But when you have a great
realtor, a great realtor is someone that
supports
the community she's involved in, supports
the her her, clients that are coming
to them for whatever information
and, tasks that they're needing
to get done and accomplish at the time,
and then also be
there as a community servant.
What's something
what's maybe one thing
buyers and sellers should look for,
when they're looking for a realtor agent
to help them.
Now, I think that a buyer and seller,
when they're looking for an agent
that is, in the area
that they're trying to
you know, set their roots
in, they should look for someone that is,
well known that someone that has knows
the area that they're actually trying
to purchase in
and then, and then, to know
that that person is there for them
when they need someone to talk to
and answer their questions and whatever
questions I have be very supportive
in getting those answers to them.
All right.
In your local market,
are you seeing, what's curious,
are you seeing people
coming out of the Dallas County down into
Ennis County,
or are they coming from everywhere?
Ellis County is, I think, one of the
they are one of the fastest growing
counties here in the area right now.
You know, Ellis County is a large county.
We have lots of towns in Ellis County
that runs from,
Midlothian,
you know, all the way back around here
to Ennis and, Red Oak.
Oh, well, yeah.
Various, you know, there's lots of growth
everywhere around us right now, and.
Yeah, you know, it's moving fast.
And, you know,
with all the things that are happening
on, you know, on the state level
side, you know, with trying to keep up
with infrastructure, trying to keep up
with water, you know, availability
for all the communities.
It's a struggle.
And I think that they all managed to well,
Is there is there a, a price range
that you're seeing that people
are looking for or taking away?
So there's all kinds
of prices for housing, but,
yeah.
You know,
I think that the mid price range,
you know, a $300,000 home, you could,
you know,
you could easily
get that in a, in a good area.
You know, people are more,
comfortable in that price range.
You know, I've seen it more,
you know, a lot of people here lately
have kind of come down
and selling something there,
and that is back in the higher range.
I'm talking about somebody
that has a $700,000 home.
They're selling it
and they're trying to get into, you know,
a $400,000 home because it's just
more economically
feasible for them.
But it's still getting them a quality
home.
Right.
And taxes the property taxes there.
I'm not compared to Dallas.
It's lower right in
so for what that means to homeowners
or you can buy more house,
you can spend more house,
you spend more money on principal
than you would on interest
or in, property taxes.
Right.
Well, I mean, that's you can weigh,
you know, in different areas.
You know, we there's a lot of a lot of
different tax categories for homebuyers.
When you pick choosing a town
you're going to live in,
you know, here in Ennis
we don't have college, a college tax,
but there's one in the works
actually there's one in Corsicana.
There's one in Midlothian.
Because we do have some college
colleges there in that area.
So they do get that tax added on to their
their tax base.
So, you know, when you get out of
into the county, you know,
you drop that city tax, you drop that,
you know, you don't have to have,
you get an
exemption or, you know, things like that
that could help you in your taxes.
So that's a lot of things
that you have to juggle and work out
with your client whenever you're
trying to find the right place for them.
But when these people
are coming from Dallas or,
you know, we had a lot of transplants
from California in this county
and quite a bit.
And, you know, they were just floored
at what you could get
compared to what they were coming from.
And right, they were just amazed at,
you know, being able to
to purchase something
and that and that price,
that bracket that they were like,
this can't be true.
You know, this,
that this home, if it was in California,
would be millions of dollars.
And, you know, here they're paying,
you know, under a million for it.
So, they were just very surprised.
Yeah. I hear that often.
What, what about the housing market
excites you about the future business?
I'm sorry. What did you say?
The future to Ennis. What about the what?
What about the housing market
are you really excited about?
You know, I'm ready for us
to step into its next phase of life.
You know, right now we do have a Walmart.
We do have a, you know, an H-e-b.
But we need more.
And, you know, the development on 45
going so north and south,
we have a Bucky's and,
we have all those things, but I think I,
I'm ready to see Anna's change
into or transform
into something different.
I think the Ennis is ready for,
a little bit more, custom home building
communities, as in with parks and walking
trails and, amenities.
Some of our services
just don't have that right now.
And I think we're ready
to step into those next steps.
So that happening?
Yeah.
Well, you got a Bucky's no, I know,
I know people that trout, myself included.
That would be a Bucky's,
you know, plan all.
Together every day.
And I'm like,
what are y'all all doing here?
There's hundreds of cars out there.
I know you can drive from here
all the way to Florida.
Only stopping at a Bucky's.
Now this all prospect,
I don't know, there was only one Bucky's.
I know it was a destination
all of its own, so, yes.
It is
too. S, a little personal side.
What are you doing when you're not helping
families buy or sell home?
You know,
I have, two wonderful grand boys
that love to do sports,
and I love to go watch them.
And then I, you know, really,
passionate about,
my family.
And I love spending time with them, so,
and then,
the time that they have plans
and they don't want me around,
I try to do some community service
and am involved in some,
nonprofits and, doing some volunteerism.
But not what nonprofits do.
You are you, Right now
I'm involved in, is the station nice?
And they,
they hold a yearly Cinco de Mayo festival
here in downtown Inez, and,
and we've done that.
This is our six year doing that.
So I do that.
And, and then I'm a part of the greater
United Way.
I'm on the board of the great,
you know, way.
I'm also on the board of the,
the greater Inez chamber.
And then, I also,
the likes of Venus, which is,
another group
that helps put on a Christmas events
during the Christmas time.
And downtown in US.
Oh, wow.
I tell you what, the, think on my own
Christmas, would be a few anyway.
Any one of those
if you want to put a spotlight on them,
you know, a podcast,
and I'll put a spotlight on.
Okay,
I will do some marking for
and see if I can draw attendance
and whatever,
whatever I can do, that's okay.
That put you on the spot,
but that's that's available to you.
So if I had a free weekend
and I'm headed in, it's.
What would I do?
What's the one thing you would.
I would not want to miss out on?
Okay, well, if you came to us,
I'd like for you to plan it either
to come down Bluebonnet season
or come during poker festival.
We have a poker festival here
at the, Memorial Day weekend.
And then we also have
Cinco de Mayo in May.
But plan it around
something that is happening downtown.
And, when you get here, you know,
Walker historic downtown,
which is very beautiful.
And then we also have,
a couple places that you could visit.
We have, some parks that are here.
You know, we have, some walking trails.
We have, some wooded walking trails
also that are here and some of our parks.
And,
and then I would end up going to the drive
in, you know,
we have a drive in here. Nice.
Tell me about that.
That's awesome.
So, yeah, we have a drive in.
It's called the Galaxy. It's on 45.
Probably go to dinner
and then go to the the drive in.
That's worth the drive right there.
Yeah, I think that's probably
the closest drive in to me.
And, actually, there's one in Fort Worth.
I don't know the location,
but there is a small one.
If it. What it's ours is.
I think we're at we're now up to
seven screens, so.
Okay. Yeah.
Wow. It's a little eclectic.
It's a little eclectic.
When you pull in, you're like,
what is this?
But there is a drive in back there.
Great, I love it.
Yeah I remember
drive into when I was a kid
and then when that long get up.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
We're we're running out of time,
so let's, real quick.
What,
what advice would you give
someone who's dreaming
of buying their first home?
If someone's dreaming
of buying their first home,
I think they should call a lender
and talk to a lender.
And ask them what they're qualified
to purchase.
After they find out that they need to call
a agent and ask them all the questions.
You know, said earlier of how,
you know, you how will you represent me
if I'm wanting to buy a property
and then, get out there
and look for your house
because it doesn't have to be a dream.
It could come. It could be possible.
And there's so many products out there
that people don't know that they could use
to buy their first home.
You know, there's there's,
no first time homebuyer
incentives to the builders, and local,
you know, community development.
They're offering great interest rates.
You know,
people just need to need to try and do it.
Even the people that think, oh,
I don't have the credit to do it.
An agent can steer you to
someone that can help you fix that credit.
And then you can get you can get
your dream will come true eventually.
You know, with a good realtor
and a good lender, you can build a clear
mortgage plan or they'll build it for you
and, do that all day long.
But it's up here.
Yeah, that's what we do all day long.
I'm like, look, you can own a home.
Then there at the top, whether it's
30 days now or, you know, a year now.
I mean, it's not a dream.
It's always it's it's it's
it's possible you it can happen for you,
you know?
All right. Amelia.
So, my,
I have my very first great or great niece.
Grand niece.
You know, months now,
and her name is Amelia.
So as well, I love that.
You know,
I used to not see people with my name.
But now, nowadays, more than ever,
I see than a more and more. Yes.
Yeah. So I'm like, hey, big way.
But I was named after my aunt,
so you know.
Yeah. So that's good. Good.
So how would someone if they're,
if you're looking to buy or sell a home
in the Nice Market or Ellis County,
how would they best reach out to you?
You know, they could Google
me, Google my name, Amelia Valdez,
and it will come right up.
Or, you know, they can come
and visit us and, right on North
Avenue,
right after you cross the railroad tracks.
Our office is right here on the corner.
Starting where the historical downtown
is in the more built in.
And we're here to serve you.
We have a bunch of real estate agents
in our office that can all help
guide you to where you need to go.
Perfect. And I'm going to put.
I'll put your links.
I'll attach your, contact
from any kind of websites
and all your social media to
wherever y'all are listening to this
or watching this.
And, that's going to wrap it up
for us
on this episode of Between Two Doors.
Amelia, thank you.
Thank you very much for being a
thank. You, I appreciate it.
Thank you.