Kelly Tap ShandrowGroup Realtor fluent in Kmer

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You could say sharp real estate instincts run strong in Kelly Tap’s lineage. The 2008 Keller Williams Rising Star Award winner paid close attention throughout her Southern California upbringing while her father and other close relatives carefully invested in local neighborhood income properties.

“It didn’t take me long to see how exciting, lucrative and enriching real estate investing could be,” the Long Beach native says, recalling being along for the ride during several nearby real estate prospecting trips. Her early passion for real estate investing eventually led her to pursue her California real estate license and what is now a vibrant, thriving career in the industry.

We’re proud to have Kelly aboard the Shandrow Group team as an upbeat and accomplished Realtor specializing in Los Angeles and Orange County home sales. Having grown up right here in Long Beach and Lakewood, Kelly brings to our organization an intimate, up-close-and-personal knowledge of the area’s historic neighborhoods and, more importantly, meaningful connections to many of the very residents and legislative leaders who bring our city’s rich, diverse cultural character and identity to life.

The areas and neighborhoods Kelly serves Shandrow Group clients in (but are not limited to) include: Bixby Knolls, Wrigley and Westside Long Beach, as well as throughout Orange County.

“I love it here because there’s so much to do,” Kelly says of Southern California, her stomping grounds. “The entertainment and active lifestyle options here are endless. Plus, Long Beach is optimally central. It’s perfectly located between Los Angeles and Orange Counties, so you could practically never run out of fun things to do.”

Kelly earned her Associate’s Degree at nearby Cypress College and later her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Social Behaviors from the University of California, Irvine. The Princeton Review this year named UCI the “Best College in the Western Region.”

Kelly is also an alumnus of Long Beach Polytechnic High School—a historic Long Beach institution that consistently ranks among the top 100 schools in U.S. News and World Report’s annual “Best High Schools” list. There Kelly was active in student government and founded Never Go Hungry, a well-known hunger awareness charity that remains active today.

Kelly’s desire to help people overcome challenges and actualize their dreams eventually led her to pursue legislative work in Washington, D.C., where she rose to the position of Congressional Researcher for the Library of Congress. Juanita Millender-McDonald, Long Beach’s late Congresswoman (representing California’s 37th District), personally appointed Kelly to the prestigious post.

Together in our nation’s Capital, they rallied support and critical funds for the recent and successful three-year renovation of Long Beach’s Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA). The high-profile project added a sculpture garden and 40,000 square feet of stunning exhibition space to the nationally acclaimed art venue.

While in Washington, D.C. Kelly also personally assisted Congresswoman Millender-McDonald in elevating Teen Abuse Awareness Week to a nationally observed event. National Teen Abuse Awareness Week is now celebrated throughout the country from Feb. 4-9 every year.

It was in the halls of our nation’s foreign affairs chambers that Kelly lent her proud Cambodian-American roots and heritage to planning and organizing a large-scale, Washington, D.C.-area Cambodian New Year (Chol Chnam Thmey) celebration. Kelly, fluent in Khmer (the official language of Cambodia), is proud to be an active member of Long Beach’s vital Cambodian community. With an estimated 50,000 Cambodian Americans living and thriving in the Greater Long Beach area, Kelly points out, our city is home to the second largest population of Cambodians outside of Southeast Asia.

Upon her return to Long Beach from the nation’s Capital, Kelly pursued work as a behavioral and educational therapist for autistic children, all while aggressively pursuing her dreams in Southern California real estate sales, which she continues to realize today!

You can contact Kelly by calling her at 562.562-364-9505, ext. 101, or by emailing her at Kelly@ShandrowGroup.com.