A broker owner holds a broker's license, the tier above a salesperson's license, and operates a brokerage that employs or contracts other agents.
Log in to followI'm slow about everything, so I've been asking this question for months and getting split answers from people who've all actually done it. The franchise pitch I sat through wanted…
Something I can't resolve from the outside, and the broker owners I've asked give confident answers in opposite directions. If you're standing up a ten agent shop today, you're pi…
I'm putting numbers on a small shop, six or seven agents, and I keep hitting the same fork. Two owners let me sit with their P&L and they do this opposite ways. The first runs a 7…
A broker I know in a small land and rural market is sitting on a decision I find genuinely hard to call. He has nine agents. Four of them close, five don't. Over the last year he'…
Spent an hour each with two brokerage owners this month and they gave me completely opposite answers to the same question. The first has six agents and closed 19 deals himself las…
I've been reading through how private money looks at service businesses and I can't get the brokerage math to sit still. The asset is a set of independent contractor agreements th…
I'm not a broker owner and I'm not licensed. I'm building a list of shops in my market because I'll need one eventually, and I've now sat in four recruiting conversations that all…
I've been handed the books on two small shops by a friend who's thinking about buying one, and the numbers argue with each other. Shop A: 22 agents, $310k of gross commission inco…