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.
Nine years in, still growing, and still only taking business from people we already know.
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.
FORD conversations, handwritten notes, birthday calls. The stuff that doesn't fit on a dashboard.
How someone feels leaving a transaction is what determines whether they ever send us their sister.
Scorecards, weekly L10, task templates, clear ownership. We don't wing anything that touches a client.
If something needs to be said, we say it. Kindly, directly, and before it turns into resentment.
Every role on this team touches clients directly, or touches the work that does.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Austin reviews every application personally. You'll hear back within 72 hours either way. That's a real promise.