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Join the team · Coppell, TX

We're hiring
for the long game

Nail & Key is a referral-based real estate team in Coppell. Every client came from someone who trusted us with their people. If you want to build a career that looks more like tending a garden than working a pipeline, read on.

See open roles How we work
By the numbers

What you'd be joining

Nine years in, still growing, and still only taking business from people we already know.

~100Families Served Each Year
9 YearsBuilding The Business
Top 1%Ranking Among TX Agents
How we work

Most teams reward
the chase. We reward
the care.

Around 40% of our business comes from past client referrals, and another chunk comes from people in the sphere of our current team. So there's no top-of-funnel machine to feed. We maintain the relationships we already have and add to them slowly.

We follow Ninja Selling, which is just a formal way of saying relationships come first. We run on EOS with weekly meetings and clear scorecards. The systems exist so we can spend more time with people.

i.

People over pipeline

FORD conversations, handwritten notes, birthday calls. The stuff that doesn't fit on a dashboard.

ii.

Hospitality is the product

How someone feels leaving a transaction is what determines whether they ever send us their sister.

iii.

Systems that work

Scorecards, weekly L10, task templates, clear ownership. We don't wing anything that touches a client.

iv.

Say the hard thing

If something needs to be said, we say it. Kindly, directly, and before it turns into resentment.

Open roles

Every role on this team touches clients directly, or touches the work that does.

● Actively hiring

Listing Coordinator

$60k-70k base· Full-time, Coppell

You'd carry the listing side of a client relationship start to finish. At the appointment with the agent, then everything after: the prep plan, the vendors, the marketing, the seller. A good fit for an agent who'd rather work inside a team than run a business alone, or for someone outside the industry with an entrepreneurial streak.

● Actively hiring

Sales Agent

Commission-based· DFW Metroplex

We're generating more referral business than our current team can handle, buyers and sellers both. You'd work referred clients from day one while we coach you on building your own sphere.

Listing Coordinator

$60,000 to $70,000 base · Full-time, Coppell office · Reports to CEO

The arrangement

Base salary of $60,000 to $70,000 depending on experience and license status, plus per-closing bonus potential. Full-time in our Coppell office, with regular time in the field at listing appointments, walkthroughs, and photo shoots. If you don't have a Texas real estate license yet, we cover the coursework and the exam.

The opportunity

The listing side of our business has more than doubled in two years, and this seat is how we keep that growth from turning into chaos. It's not an assistant role. The person here carries the listing side of the client relationship.

You'd be at the listing appointment with the agent. They handle price and the terms of the agreement. You present your half: what has to happen to the house, in what order, on what timeline, and how we're going to market it. Then you go execute it.

From there the listing is yours. The prep plan, the vendors, the photography, the copy, the launch, the documents, and the seller. When they have a question in week two, they call you, not the agent.

Two kinds of people tend to thrive here. The first is a licensed agent who is good with clients and would rather work inside a team than run a business alone, trading the pipeline for a base salary and real support. The second is someone from outside real estate with an entrepreneurial itch and an outgoing, relational spirit, who wants to own something without starting a business from scratch.

What you'll do

  • Present your half of the listing appointment. The prep plan, the timeline, the marketing approach. The agent covers price and terms. You cover everything that happens after the seller says yes.
  • Prep the consult. Pull together the research and materials the lead agent needs to walk into a listing appointment ready, and make sure nothing about the property catches us off guard in the room.
  • Run pre-listing walkthroughs. Often alone. Walk a house, decide what has to change before it's photographed, and tell the seller what it is.
  • Own the prep project. Sequencing painters, cleaners, handymen, stagers, and photographers so nothing waits on something that hasn't happened yet. Paint cures before staging, staging before photos, photos before go-live.
  • Run the marketing. Photography direction, listing copy that sounds like a place instead of a spec sheet, and the launch across the MLS, Compass Private Exclusives, and the just-listed push.
  • Be the seller's point person. They hear from you before they have to ask, and when the news is bad they still hear it from you first.
  • Hold the standard. When a seller wants to skip the declutter and shoot this weekend, you tell them kindly and directly what that costs them.
  • Chase the documents and the vendors. Survey, HOA documents, disclosures, utilities, warranties. The ball never sits in your court.
  • Hold the file through closing and after. Review request, closing gift, systems updated. The listing isn't done when it sells.

Who we're looking for

  • Active Texas real estate license, or ready to get one right away. You'll be at appointments and talking through agreements with sellers, so this one isn't flexible. We pay for the course and the exam.
  • Independent, and still on a team. You'd get direction and coaching rather than supervision, and nobody is handing you a task list every morning. You'd also work side by side with the lead agent and the transaction coordinator every day.
  • Relational and genuinely warm with sellers, and able to be commanding when the moment calls for it.
  • High emotional intelligence. You can tell when a seller is anxious rather than difficult, and you adjust.
  • Present. We're in the office together every day, and we're small enough that the person in this seat shapes the room. If your ideal day is heads-down and alone, you'd be miserable here.
  • Organized in a way that shows. You think in dependencies and deadlines, not in a to-do list you hope to get to.
  • An eye for how a home should be presented, and the ability to say why a choice works.
  • Real estate experience is a plus, not a requirement.

Sales Agent

Commission-based · DFW Metroplex · Reports to Lead Agent

The arrangement

Commission split on closed transactions, both team-referred and self-sourced. We provide the clients, the coaching, and the back-end support. The work ethic is on you.

The opportunity

We're generating more business than our current team can handle, buyers and sellers both. These are all referred clients, meaning someone they trust sent them to us. That's a very different starting point than a cold internet lead, and we want someone on this team who gets the difference.

The referrals get you going, but the best agents in this seat build their own sphere too. People who genuinely like talking to people. If strangers open up to you at the grocery store, that's a good sign.

What you'll do

  • Work referred clients start to finish. Buyers and sellers, from the first call through closing day. You're their agent. You run showings, take listings, write offers, handle negotiations, and keep them informed the whole way.
  • Build your own sphere. FORD conversations, personal outreach, showing up in your community. We'll teach you the system, but you have to be the one who picks up the phone.
  • Communicate before you're asked. Clients should never have to chase you for an update. If something changed, they hear it from you first.
  • Use the team around you. You'll have a buyer coordinator, a transaction coordinator, and a listing coordinator. Learn the workflows and lean on them so you can stay focused on clients.
  • Know your market. Pricing, neighborhoods, school zones, commute times, what just sold and what's sitting. Whether you're advising a buyer or pricing a listing, you should know the answer or know where to look in under a minute.
  • Protect the reputation. Every client you work with got our name from someone they trust. That trust transfers to you, and it's not something we take lightly.

Who we're looking for

  • Active Texas real estate license, or willing to get one immediately.
  • Good with people, which is not the same thing as being good at selling people.
  • The kind of person who builds relationships without a reason to, it just happens.
  • Hungry to actually build something, not just looking for a place to park a license.
  • Comfortable working with buyers and sellers alike, or eager to learn both.
  • Willing to follow our system before deciding to do it your own way.
  • Comfortable working across the DFW metroplex.
  • Responsive. If a client texts you, three hours is too long to wait.
Apply to join

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The whole application takes about 15 minutes. Resume plus some short written answers plus two quick assessments. Austin reads every one personally and you'll hear back within 72 hours.

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