Sign today. Your desk is live tomorrow morning.
Setting up a market takes about six hours of work, and it’s ours, done the day you sign. Your part is about three hours across the first week, most of it on two calls with Tim.
Hour by hour, from signature to full speed.
Gold is your time. Green is ours. The times are an example morning; we fit them around your day.
Sign, move your license, hand us the keys
One morning of your time. Everything after the kickoff call is ours.
- 9:00 amYou
Sign the agreement
15 minE-sign the independent contractor agreement, your W-9, and upload your E&O certificate. Your city is reserved for you the moment you sign.
- 9:15 amYou
Request the license change
5 minIn DRE eLicensing, request the change of responsible broker to Local Market Brokerage, Inc. Your license number stays the same.
- 9:20 amLocal Market
The broker certifies it
same dayLocal Market certifies your request in eLicensing. The DRE dates the change from the day the new broker certifies it, so you can be a Local Market agent the day you sign.
- 9:30 amYou + Tim
Kickoff call with Tim
60 minEverything we need to build your market, in one conversation:
- Your city and its edges, and any neighborhoods you work beyond it
- Your name or team name, “powered by Local Market”, headshot and phone
- Which campaigns start first: expireds, rental owners, developers, probate, recent sales
- Your sphere: send us your contact list and it’s loaded with the rest
- 10:30 amLocal Market
We build your market
about 6 hoursWhile you get on with your day:
- Every parcel in your city, with owner on record and sale history
- MLS feeds for new listings, sales and expireds
- Campaign lists built and ranked: expireds, rental owners, developer lots, probate, pre-foreclosure, recent sales
- Your city’s market site, with your name and the brokerage line on every page
- Your sending address set up, with warm-up started
- Your desk account, letterhead and email signature
- AfternoonYou
Tell your current broker
15 minGive notice the way your agreement asks. Open escrows stay there and close there; ask for releases on any listings you want to bring.
- EveningLocal Market
Checked before you see it
We sign in as you and check every tab, then draft your first letters and emails so they’re waiting for your approval.
Your desk is live
You wake up to your market. By lunch, your first outreach is on its way.
- MorningLocal Market
Your first morning brief
New listings, sales and expireds in your city, who to call first, and anything waiting for your approval, in your inbox.
- 9:00 amYou + Tim
Launch call with Tim
45 minYour own city on the Docket:
- Approve your first letters and emails
- Walk the Scoreboard, People and your market site
- Set today’s call list
- 10:00 amYou
Your first calls
your paceFrom the Docket, with the reason for each call and what to say written beside the number.
- MiddayLocal Market
Outreach goes out
Approved letters go to print. Emails start at a new address’s safe opening pace of 10 a day and rise each day.
First responses
The paperwork that runs on other people’s clocks finishes, and the Scoreboard starts filling.
- Day 2You
MLS and association
20 minMove your MLS and association membership to Local Market so new listings and lockbox access carry the new office.
- Days 2 to 5You + Tim
Listings come over
As releases come back from your current broker, we prepare new listing agreements; each seller decides.
- Day 3Local Market
Your sphere hears from you
Your contacts start receiving the same campaigns, in your name.
- All weekLocal Market
The Scoreboard fills
QR scans on your letters, emails opened, owners back on your site, each one put in order on the next morning’s Docket.
- Day 7You + Tim
Week-one check-in
30 minWhat’s working, who responded, and which campaign to turn up next.
Full speed
Your market runs every day without you building anything.
- Week 2Local Market
Sending at full pace
Your address finishes its warm-up and sends at its full daily pace.
- Week 2Local Market
Local News under your name
Daily articles about your city and your Google Business Profile kept active.
- Week 4Local Market
Your first monthly market report
Sent to every lead in your city, from you.
Seven things, ten minutes to gather.
- Your DRE license ID and eLicensing sign-in
- Your E&O certificate
- A W-9
- A headshot, and a logo if you have one
- The phone number you want on the desk
- Your contact list, exported from your CRM or phone
- The domain you’d like for your city’s site, if you have one in mind
What we can’t speed up.
Listing releases
Your current broker and your sellers decide how fast listings move.
MLS and association
Usually a short online change; your MLS sets the timing.
Your domain
A new domain for your market site can take a few hours to point at your site.
Email warm-up
A new sending address starts at 10 a day and rises daily for about two weeks, so your email lands in inboxes, not spam.
None of these hold up your desk. Your market is live the morning after you sign either way.
Your clients, your sphere, your name.
Your open escrows
They close at your current brokerage. Moving doesn’t disturb a deal in progress.
Your clients and sphere
Your relationships come with you, and your contacts hear from you through the same campaigns.
Your brand
Work under your own name or team name, “powered by Local Market”, with the brokerage shown as the law requires.
Your listings if you ever leave
If you leave Local Market, your listings go with you, subject to your sellers’ choice.
Coming from a named brokerage? Leaving Compass · Leaving a Sotheby’s International Realty office