Move-Up Sellers
List your current home and step into the next one with a single, coordinated plan — pricing, timing, and contingencies handled as one move, not two stressful ones.
Bakersfield · Kern County
Bakersfield homes, built on three decades of know-how.
Licensed since 1993, with 21 of those years spent on the builder side — reading floor plans, pricing semi-custom homes, and watching Bakersfield grow up. Now I bring that perspective to move-up buyers and sellers on the resale side.
Watson Realty
DRE #01152907
Licensed since 1993
St. Jude Dream Home Contributor
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Contributor
Meet Kelly
Hi, I'm Kelly. I've spent the last 21 years on the build side — now I'm bringing all of it to your home story.
I wanted to be an architect like my grandfather, but I'm a people person. New construction gave me the best of both worlds.
For 21 years I worked the middleman seat between buyers, architects, and builders — from semi-custom master-planned homes to high-end custom luxury builds. Add 8 years before that recruiting and training new agents at Prudential America West, and we're talking 900+ homes sold and a deep, practical understanding of how houses actually come together.
Today I bring that same eye to resale residential — representing buyers and sellers across Bakersfield with the patience, thoroughness, and care my clients have always counted on.
Read my full storyWhat I Do
Three ways I work with Bakersfield families.
Whether you're trading up, buying for the first time, or weighing a new build, the process shouldn't feel like a maze.
First-Time Buyers
Honest education, patient touring, and someone who actually answers the phone. We start with what your life looks like — not what's listed today.
New Construction Buyers
I've sat across the table from architects and project managers for 21 years. I'll read plans, flag upgrades worth paying for, and make sure your representation isn't the builder's.
Bakersfield, End to End
Wherever home is, in Bakersfield.
I work across all of Bakersfield and Kern County — from established luxury corridors to brand-new master-planned communities to the first-build starter streets I helped sell years ago. If it’s in this town, I can help.
Thank you for being kind, thank you for never giving up on us, and thank you for believing in us even when we didn't think the approval would ever come.
In the Community
Homes that matter.
I've had the privilege of contributing to multiple St. Jude Dream Home builds — homes raffled to benefit kids fighting cancer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
And when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to Bakersfield to build a home for a family that needed one, I was on the team that helped make it happen.
I don't lead with "awards." Building real homes for real families that need them is the work I'm proudest of.
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