For twenty years, the stage was literal. I was a classical flutist in Bucharest, trained under a communist regime where discipline wasn’t a virtue, it was a survival skill. Television. Recordings. International competitions. I performed for Mother Teresa and represented Romania at the 1996 Olympic Games as its Youth Cultural Ambassador.
Today the stage is the Texas Hill Country, and the work is the same in every way that matters: know every detail, adapt to whatever the lights bring, and above all, listen.
I’m Cleo Talos, Broker Owner of GoSellTexas Realty.
It’s a level of service, and everyone deserves it.
The same work goes into a first home in Boerne as a Cordillera Ranch estate. The same pricing analysis. The same photography standard. The same negotiation. The same broker on the phone at nine at night when something goes sideways.
A volume operation can’t hold that standard, because sooner or later it has to decide which clients get the full version of the service and which get the abbreviated one. A boutique brokerage never has to make that choice. That is precisely why I built one.
No two clients get the same plan either, because no two people are moving for the same reason. A first home. A ranch property meant to stay in the family. An estate sale after a loss. An executive with six weeks to move a family from another country. The strategy is built for the situation in front of me, every single time.
At nineteen I had two options: a scholarship to the Paris Conservatory, or an invitation to Los Angeles. I chose America. What I arrived into turned out to be unsafe, and I left it with my flute and nothing else.
What I did next says more about me than any of it. I walked into a university music department uninvited, asked for the dean, and auditioned on the spot. That audition became a scholarship, and later a graduate fellowship. I have never stopped being grateful to the people who opened a door for me before I had anything to show them but nerve. Paying that back is most of why I work the way I do.
What followed, I built alongside my husband of more than twenty years — a federal law enforcement officer whose career kept us moving, coast to coast and overseas. The Pacific Symphony. A bachelor’s degree magna cum laude and a master’s from UCLA. National Executive for an American luxury jewelry house. My own music academy.
Then a company of my own: an American-made fine leather and semi-precious metals accessories brand, carried in Nordstrom flagship stores, Nordstrom e-commerce, and boutiques across the United States, Europe, and Asia. I designed it, built it, sold it into national retail, and ran it.
Two businesses built from nothing, in industries where the details were never optional. That’s the standard I brought to this one.
We landed in Fair Oaks Ranch in the middle of a pandemic.
I sat in a hotel room with my two boys, no local network, no idea where anything was — and I thought about every move before that one, and the people who had made those landings effortless. Somebody had always been there to tell me which street, which school, who to call when something broke.
That was the day this career started.
I’ve packed a house, arrived somewhere I knew no one, and had to work out where my family would actually belong. More times than I can count, on two continents. So I know what most people never see from the outside: a transaction is a contract and a closing date. A move is a family deciding where their life happens next.
Nobody is just buying square footage.
Excellence isn’t an occasional achievement. It’s a daily modus operandi, detail by detail, whether anyone is watching or not.
You learn to adapt to whatever the stage lights bring — the acoustics you didn’t expect, the thing that goes wrong in the second movement, the room that isn’t responding the way you planned.
And above all, you learn to listen. To the musicians beside you. And to an audience whose emotions shift bar by bar, so that by the end you’re not performing at them, you’re moving with them.
That is this job.
Clients want to be heard, not sold to. Nobody wants a script. What you’re hiring is a genuine human being who can read the room, and a professional skilled enough to deliver when it counts.
I’ll tell you when your house is overpriced. I’ll tell you when the numbers on an investment don’t work. I’ll tell you when the home you love has a problem you can’t see yet.
I’d rather lose a listing than be the reason someone made a decision they regret.
There has never been a commission big enough to be worth somebody’s trust.
I have never once taken the easier road. I know what it costs to break through a ceiling, and I have two sons watching how I handle mine.
Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch — home. I live in Fair Oaks Ranch and parent in Boerne ISD. I know these communities the way a resident does rather than the way a market report does: the neighborhoods, the HOAs, the school zone lines, the builders, and the difference between two subdivisions that look identical on paper.
Greater San Antonio. I represent buyers and sellers across the city’s most established addresses — The Dominion, Terrell Hills, Alamo Heights, Olmos Park, Shavano Park, and Stone Oak — each with its own buyer pool, its own pricing logic, and its own marketing requirements.
Cordillera Ranch and the Texas Hill Country. Acreage, golf, ranch, and legacy properties, plus the lake and land markets beyond Boerne. This is the specialized end of the market, where the buyer is specific and the marketing has to be built for them rather than broadcast.
International clients. I immigrated here myself and I serve on the San Antonio Board of Realtors Global Business Committee. I know what a buyer arriving from another country actually needs explained — and how much of it nobody thinks to mention.
Corporate executive relocation. Compressed timelines, remote decisions, a spouse evaluating a city they’ve never seen, children who need the right school by August. I’ve lived this from the family’s side, repeatedly.
Military relocation. As a Military Relocation Professional and a member of SABOR’s Military Advisory Group, I work with families moving to and from Joint Base San Antonio — including the parts of a PCS timeline that don’t accommodate a normal transaction.
Investors. Acquisition analysis, hold strategy, and honest math — including the properties I’ll tell you not to buy.
Custom builder representation. Builders and the clients building with them: lot selection, feasibility, contract structure, and the long arc between breaking ground and moving in.
Platinum Top 50 Finalist, 2025 and 2026 — San Antonio’s most competitive agent recognition.
Five designations from the National Association of Realtors:
I serve on the Board of Directors of the Boerne Education Foundation, a foundation that serves every single student and teacher in Boerne ISD. I’ve served on multiple boards for local youth organizations, including the Hill Country Youth Orchestras and the Chargers Football and Cheer Youth Organization.
Professionally, I serve on the San Antonio Board of Realtors Global Business Committee and Military Advisory Group, and on the San Antonio CREW Communication Committee.
And I never stopped teaching. I still conduct master classes and offer free music clinics here.
I still make music and write my own. I’m an unapologetic soccer and football mom, I play recreational tennis, and I’ve thrown myself entirely into the Hill Country life I now help other families find.
Whether you’re buying a first home in Boerne, selling an estate in Cordillera Ranch, or relocating from across the country, the conversation starts the same way: with your situation, not a script.
And when you call GoSellTexas Realty, you get the broker. I answer my own phone.
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