We keep going to school so you get better advice.
A real estate licence is where the learning starts, not where it ends. Carlos has completed six designations and certifications from the National Association of REALTORS®, each one a course in a specific kind of client, and what they teach runs through everything the team does.
What the letters after Carlos's name mean, and what they mean for you.
NAR awards two kinds: a designation is a deeper program with membership and continuing requirements; a certification is a focused course in one skill. Here are Carlos's six, in plain words.
Accredited Buyer's Representative
The benchmark of excellence in buyer representation, from NAR's Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council. The course is built around the buyer agency relationship: the agreement, the duties it creates, how to search, how to write and negotiate an offer, and how to carry a buyer from contract to closing.
A buyer's agent who was trained specifically to be one. Your agreement explained line by line, an offer built around your terms rather than the seller's, and someone whose loyalty is to you by contract and by training.
Seller Representative Specialist
The premier credential in seller representation, from the Real Estate Business Institute. It covers the listing consultation, pricing, preparation and marketing of a home, managing showings and offers, and negotiating on the seller's behalf through inspection and appraisal.
A listing agent trained to protect your net, not just to get a sold sign. Evidence-based pricing, a marketing plan with a reason for each piece, and a negotiator on your side of the table when the repair list arrives.
Seniors Real Estate Specialist
NAR's designation for serving clients 50 and over. The course covers the financial and lifestyle transitions of later-life moves: housing options from active adult communities to continuing care, downsizing, aging in place, the tax and estate questions that come up, and the patience the work needs.
An agent who knows a downsizing move is not a transaction with a deadline. The move planned around the family and the community's timeline, the Homestead Exemption filed, and nothing rushed. Our page for seniors is built on it.
Real Estate Negotiation Expert
NAR's certification in negotiation, from the Real Estate Business Institute. Two days on how people actually decide: reading the other side, choosing a strategy, handling the difficult conversation, and negotiating price, terms, repairs and dates without losing the deal or the relationship.
Every offer, counter, repair request and appraisal gap on your file is handled by someone trained in the craft of it. Calm at the table, and a clear recommendation of what to do next.
Resort and Second-Home Property Specialist
NAR's certification for second homes, vacation homes and investment property. The course covers the different math of a property you will not live in full time: the 6% assessment in South Carolina, rental demand and short-term rental rules, financing, and management.
If you are buying a lake house, a mountain place or a rental, an agent who models it as the investment it is, knows the tax difference between a primary home and a second one, and can point you to a property manager.
Pricing Strategy Advisor
NAR's certification in pricing. The course teaches how to build a comparative market analysis properly, how to weigh comparables and adjustments, how appraisers work and why appraisals come in where they do, and how to explain a price to a client with evidence.
A list price built from what actually sold, not from a guess or from what a neighbor asked. On the buying side, an offer priced to win without overpaying, and an appraisal you are ready for.
Awarded by the National Association of REALTORS® and its affiliated institutes.
The training belongs to the team.
Carlos earned these credentials. The team works from them. What a course taught him about representing a buyer, pricing a listing, negotiating an inspection response or walking a family through a downsizing move becomes the team's way of doing that work, in the roleplay every morning and in the coaching behind every file.
So when you work with Alex, Tom or Mason, you are working with an agent trained on the same playbook, with Carlos a phone call away on anything that needs him. Nobody on this team is figuring it out on your transaction.
Meet the team- Carlos BedoyaTeam lead · REALTOR®ABR · SRS · SRES · RENE · RSPS · PSA
- Alex ThriftREALTOR®
- Tom CannyREALTOR®
- Mason BrownREALTOR®
The organizations behind us, and what they do for you.
Membership is voluntary, and there are six. Each one binds us to a standard or gives us a tool that a client feels, even if they never hear the name: the Code of Ethics, the state's contracts, and listing and lockbox access across three MLS systems from Spartanburg to Clemson.
The largest trade association in the country and the source of the REALTOR® mark. Membership binds us to the REALTOR® Code of Ethics, in force since 1913 and enforced by our local association, and gives us the research and the standards the business runs on. The state and local associations below come with it.
Duties to you that go beyond the law: honesty about what we know, no exaggeration about a property, disclosure of our own interest, and equal service to everyone. And a place to complain if we ever fall short.
The state association. It writes and maintains the standard South Carolina forms, the purchase agreement, the agency agreements, the disclosures, and the SCR Form 110 you read about on our Why hire a Realtor page, and updates them as the law changes. It also runs a legal hotline for members and represents agents and homeowners at the State House.
The contract you sign is the state's standard one, current to the law this year, not a form someone downloaded. And when a contract question comes up mid-deal, your agent can get an answer from the association's attorneys the same day.
Our local association, and the operator of the Greater Greenville MLS: the listing database every home in the county goes into, the Supra lockbox system that opens the doors, and the market statistics behind every price we quote. It is also the body that enforces the Code of Ethics locally.
Every Greenville County listing the moment it goes live, showings on your schedule through the lockbox system, and pricing built from the same sold data an appraiser uses. If we ever fall short, GGAR is where you file the complaint.
The association for Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties, with its own MLS and lockbox system. Membership is separate from Greenville's; an agent without it sees those listings late or not at all.
Clemson, Easley, Anderson, Lake Hartwell and Lake Keowee handled by the same team, with full listing and lockbox access on that side of the Upstate. No hand-off to a stranger when your search crosses the county line.
The association for Spartanburg County, with its own MLS and lockbox system, the same way. Greer straddles two counties, and the east side of the Upstate lists there.
Spartanburg, Boiling Springs and the Spartanburg side of Greer with the same access and the same agent. When BMW or the I-85 corridor is the commute, the search does not stop at a county line.
The trade association whose mission is to advance sustainable Hispanic homeownership. It publishes the annual State of Hispanic Homeownership Report, runs the Hispanic Wealth Project, and connects its members to lenders, attorneys and agents who serve Spanish-speaking clients well.
A team that does not treat Spanish as a translation of the English service. The lender, the closing attorney and the inspector who can work in Spanish, and an agent who has been at the table for a first home in a family where nobody has bought one before.
Tell us what you are trying to do.
Buying, selling, relocating, retiring, negotiating an offer already on the table. There is a course for it, and there is an agent on this team who has worked it before.