In the early fall of 2007 I was approached with a novel idea for an online real estate business. I tend to get pitched on a lot of moderately good ideas by people, but this one was particularly interesting since it came from a really smart guy with experience in software and real estate. Don really was 100% behind the idea and I really loved it too — it made tonnes of sense to me. I immediately committed to work toward developing the project, and after many iterations we brought the site live earlier this month.
Agent Invitation is a web app created to let real estate clients and agents/brokers work together to save money for each other. Clients can send an Agent Invitation to up to 3 agents anonymously giving the agent details about the transaction they’re looking to make and why it might make sense to offer them a discounted or alternative commission rate. Agents can then respond with proposed transaction terms (including no discount at all) and include details about their own business and specialties to sell themselves. The client chooses which agents should receive their contact information, and then finally pick out and later review the Agent they hired (if any).
Head over and read Don’s Agent Invitation Blog or go visit Agent Invitation itself and watch the videos explaining how and why this works for both parties.
