Join the referral network

An active license, in good standing

We check it against your state regulator ourselves, on the date shown, and again at your license’s own renewal date — which we record when we first check, so the re-check runs on the regulator’s calendar rather than ours. Any unresolved disciplinary action is a no — not a conversation.

At least three closed transactions in each of the last two full calendar years

Six closings across two years, minimum, with at least three in each. It is a low bar on purpose: we are not looking for production awards, we are excluding the agent who renewed a license and did nothing with it. A divorcing client cannot afford to be somebody’s first deal back.

Send us your last six closed sales, straight out of your MLS. That is the same six the rule asks for, it takes about ninety seconds to produce, and because MLS records carry closing dates it shows us the spread as well as the count — five in one year and one in the other is the case this rule exists to catch.

We ask for it before your first referral, not before your first conversation.

A public rating of 4.7 or better, across everywhere you are reviewed

Not your best platform — all of them, taken together, and at least ten reviews in total. Tell us where to look and we will look at every one you name.

The sample size matters as much as the number. Five stars from four reviews tells us nothing; 4.8 from sixty tells us a great deal. And an agent who is 4.9 in one place and 3.1 in another is telling us something that no single-site rule would ever catch.

We do not require a perfect rating and we would be suspicious of one in this work. A divorce sale has two principals, at least one of whom is frequently unhappy however well you behave. An agent who has handled twenty of them has collected a bad review; an agent with a spotless record has probably never handled one.

If you have no public reviews — which is true of plenty of good referral-based agents — give us two recent clients we can call instead.

The training, and its twenty questions

The password for the assessment is revealed by the last question of the training, so you can sit it the moment you finish; we still run the license check before anybody is sent a client. About forty-five minutes. Nobody receives a referral having skipped it, and nobody pays for it.

You apply, and we check the license and the production ourselves

License state, license number, and a screenshot of your record showing it is active and in good standing. We verify it against the state regulator rather than taking the screenshot at face value — the screenshot tells us where to look.

A day or two, usually. If the county is already taken we say so straight away rather than leaving you waiting.

You get the training and the questions

Seven short modules and twenty questions, drawn from material already published on the site. Around forty-five minutes.

Sixteen of twenty passes. You may sit it as many times as you like and there is no charge for any of it, ever. Several questions are written so that the obvious answer is the wrong one — which is why the mark is sixteen rather than twenty, and why every question explains itself the moment you answer it.

You do not have to take the training first. If you already know this material, sit the questions and skip the modules; we mark it the same way. An assessment that can only be passed by taking one company’s course is a course with a test attached, and we would rather have a standard.

You sign two things, and the county is yours

A one-page network letter that sets out the county and how you lose it, and — separately, for each client — a standard per-client referral agreement. The referral agreement goes to you first and comes back signed before the introduction is made. Nobody’s name reaches you, and you are not introduced to anybody, until it is executed. That protects you as much as us: it is the document that establishes the fee is owed by your brokerage rather than by the client, and it is agreed before anyone has met.

The referral fee is 30% of the gross commission on the client’s side, valid 24 months, paid by your brokerage on a completed transaction — nothing up front, and nothing at all if it does not close.

We are asking for 30% because a client who reaches you through us has read our house material, been told what an automatic order is, and asked for an introduction by name. That is not a lead, and we do not price it like one — in either direction. Nothing is payable by you at any other point, ever.

Ordered by the date you certified. Nothing else.

The panel itself is not published anywhere. We keep an internal roster for each market and make introductions from it, in certification order, as requests come in for that market. A reader never sees a list of agents and you are never ranked against anyone; you hear from us when there is a client to introduce.

A place opens two ways, and the second one is the one people do not expect.

One: somebody leaves. An agent moves, stops responding, or loses their place. When that happens we go to the certified agents in that county and start at the top of the list, which is whoever passed first.

Two: the county gets busier. A panel starts at two. We add one more place for every six genuine inquiries that market produces in a year, up to the ceiling set by the table below, and we fill the new place from the same list in the same order.

The cap is real and it stays at five. A panel that grows without limit is a directory, and a directory is worth nothing to the agents on it — which is the entire reason we are not one.

Not whoever paid, not whoever asked most recently, not whoever we liked best. First come is the only ordering rule that cannot be quietly sold, which is exactly why it is the one we use. It is the same reasoning as the rule that governs the directory.

We will tell you honestly where you sit and how often that county has actually turned over, including when the honest answer is “it never has and it may not”. A waiting list nobody moves up is a waiting list we should not have put you on.