MEET THE TEAM
Celeste Weinstein, VCTSA
Principal
Celeste is a 1986 graduate of George Mason University, a Virginia Certified Title Settlement Agent, Virginia licensed Title Agent/Producer and the owner of SSD Title & Escrow and Signed Sealed Delivered, LLC. Celeste started her career as a title examiner in 1985 while attending George Mason University and transitioned to real estate settlements in 1990. With 35+ years of industry experience, Celeste demonstrates an extensive working knowledge of the critical business functions for operating a settlement agency, title remediation, settlement processing and adherence to ALTA’s Best Practices in the conduct of a residential or commercial real estate transaction. She is a current member of the American Land Title Association and Virginia Land Title Association. From simple to complex, Celeste has presided over 10,000+ residential transactions and looks forward to serving real estate agents and their clients. Celeste resides in Leesburg with her husband, Bruce and Chocolate Lab, Bliss. She enjoys spending time with her family, hiking trails along the Potomac, home remodeling and life in Old Town Leesburg.
Kalman Weinstein, Settlement Processor
Kalman is a 2019 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and a Virginia Notary Public. While in college, Kalman worked summers as a pre-settlement coordinator with his mother, Celeste. When Celeste expanded her wildly successful Signed Sealed Delivered, LLC by launching SSD Title & Escrow in 2020, Kalman was brought on full-time to process transactions and grow SSD’s market share in Northern Virginia through social media and superior service. Although Kalman is currently acting as SSDTE’s settlement coordinator and processor, he is pursuing his title insurance license and is looking forward to conducting real estate settlements for SSD in 2022. Kalman is a 2019 Randolph Hearst Award recipient in Journalism and has published over a dozen news articles for Richmond news networks. His VCU internships include service at AARP Virginia as the head of Social Media & Marketing, and at the Virginia Coalition for Open Government assisting with lobbying at the Virginia General Assembly. Following graduation and during the peak of the pandemic, Kalman was an apprentice at Whiffletree Farm in Warrenton, VA where he worked and learned to raise livestock, free range poultry and “farm to table economics”. Kalman currently resides in Warrenton and is an accomplished musician. He is the lead artist and founder of Cowpoke, a band favorite at wineries, breweries, and pubs in Loudoun, Fauquier and Culpeper counties.