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In episode 8 of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn & co-host Josh sit down with Tim Scheib, a 22-year real estate veteran who walked away from a ReMax Hall of Fame and Titans Club career to join Real Broker last fall. A few months later, Real announced an $880 million deal to buy ReMax.

Tim breaks down exactly why it is not about the brand name once you have your own following.

Real bought 180,000 agents for a seat at the table, and now ReMax franchise owners are sitting in a much hotter seat than ReMax agents are. Plus why Sandi Lyn was surprised ReMax sold for under a billion, and how ReMax agents will eventually fit into Real's sponsor model.

Then the social media playbook. 1,200 days in a row posting on TikTok and Instagram. The 100 houses board, and vulnerability over showmanship.

If you are a ReMax agent with questions Tim is taking calls: 515-313-7137.

00:00 Cold Open and intros

01:51 Tim Scheib's 22-year real estate career

02:40 The October 2023 conversation with Bob Tompkins that started the move

04:00 Why ReMax was built for teams and what changed in 2015

05:31 The revenue share difference at Real and why it matters when agents leave

06:41 Mental sabotage when timing a brokerage switch

07:50 It is not about the brand once you have your own following

10:05 Why Tim wishes he had moved in 2023 instead of 2024

11:33 The Real acquisition of ReMax and the seat at the big boy table

13:37 Why ReMax franchise owners are sitting in the hottest seat

16:45 Officing from a coffee shop instead of an office

19:25 Business cards and the picture on the card problem

21:11 The social media journey from photography to 1,200 days in a row

24:10 Hyperlocal content and the compounding payoff

27:44 The 100 houses board and showing the losses

30:11 What Tim told his coach when asked to stop making videos

36:15 When the deal closes and what regulators may or may not do

37:27 Morgan Stanley's $550 million loan and what it signals

40:16 How ReMax agents will fit into Real's sponsor model

44:28 The franchise owner's golden parachute play

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Bonus episode of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett and co-host Josh Ries pull the curtain back on how the show actually gets built. Producer Brian holds it down behind the board.

The first half is a working session, figuring out how to nail a 3-to-5 second intro hook, the "her business partner threatened to burn my house down" line that may have just become Josh's permanent intro, and the audio and setup tweaks happening week by week. Unpolished and built to give other creators a real look at what it actually takes to launch a daily show.

The second half goes hard on Ryan Serhant's prediction that there will only be five brokerages left in the country by 2030. Sandi Lyn and Josh break down why the prediction ignores how different every market is, why Serhant's playbook does not translate to everywhere, and why the entire conversation at the top of the industry is now about owners and influencers instead of agents.

Plus what it really means when eXp, Real, etc. hand power to outside investors like BlackRock. Why rev share only worked for the people who got in early. How Real now routes agents through an AI chatbot before they can ever talk to a managing broker, and the story of the Real agent who switched to MyRECo™ because nobody would pick up the phone for him.

If you want the truth about what these brokerages are actually prioritizing right now, this one is for you.

Chapters:

00:53 Working out the 3-to-5 second intro hook
03:38 Should Sandi Lyn mention Marine Corps in her intro

05:51 The line that may become Josh's permanent intro

09:14 Why the burn-my-house-down line works

10:19 Quantifying credibility and the 11 million social media views

14:04 Producer Brian's role and the slow personality reveal

21:08 Topic: Serhant says only 5 brokerages will exist by 2030
23:05 Sandi Lyn on why building this is harder than she thought

24:43 The real estate model stopped being creative

27:57 The fangirl problem at the top of the industry

31:49 Why the lottery ticket only worked for the people who got in early

32:31 Why the rev share model is not sustainable long-term

35:06 BlackRock and what happens when outside investors take over

38:16 The agent who said Real would not pick up the phone

39:36 Office hours start at 9. It is 8:55.

42:25 The AI chatbot replacing the managing broker

44:31 What agents are actually paying $16,000 a year for

My Real Estate Show™ goes live every weekday at 12 CST. The conversations the rest of the industry is too careful to have. No recruiting pitch, no agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

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Episode 11 of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett and Producer Brian cover the day EXP rang the bell on NASDAQ as AGNT, Real posted $456 million in Q1 revenue, the lawyers piled onto the Remax deal, and Inman dropped its 2026 Future Leaders list with co-host Josh Ries on it.

EXP World Holdings officially traded as AGNT for the first time today after picking up Next Home. Sandi Lyn breaks down why the EXP stock surge in 2020 was lightning in a bottle that no real estate brokerage is going to recreate without a completely different model, and why agents who think they are going to win the lottery on a brokerage stock surge are setting themselves up to be disappointed.

Then Real Brokerage's Q1 numbers. $456 million in revenue, up 32 percent year over year. The big takeaway: real estate brokerages do not make their money on the brokerage itself. They make it on title, mortgage, and the rest of the verticals.

Then Inman's 2026 Future Leaders list dropped, and co-host Josh Ries made it in the agents, teams, and brokers category. Big congratulations to Josh.

Then Compass. Reffkin used the May 6 investor call to commit to taking MRED national, and the very next day MLS CLAW in Southern California announced Compass International Holdings would feed its full active listing inventory into the MLS. The Compass pipe is now plugged into Chicago, Nashville, and Los Angeles. Sandi Lyn calls it 4D chess and explains why Zillow and Realtor.com had to lock arms to fight one broker owner.

Plus a detour explaining the fallout of the 2020 Derecho, and a list of trending audio and format ideas for agents who want to make reels right now.

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Chapters:

00:00 Disclaimer and cold open 01:38 Why this show exists

03:14 EXP rings the bell on NASDAQ as AGNT

06:21 Why the EXP 2020 stock surge was lightning in a bottle

07:38 Agents who think they will win the lottery on brokerage stock

08:46 Brian's take and the ticker change as a fresh slate

09:17 Real Brokerage Q1 revenue: $456 million up 32 percent

10:38 Why brokerages do not actually make money on the brokerage

11:43 Lawyers stack complaints on the Remax deal

12:50 Inman drops the 2026 Future Leaders list

13:47 Josh Ries named a future leader

14:35 Reffkin takes MRED and CLAW national

17:43 Trending reel formats for agents

20:17 Reel react: Iowa Derecho, insurance, and property tax pain

24:00 Why your paid-off home should not mean perpetual property taxes

26:16 Brian's case against unrealized gains taxation on housing

27:42 Wrap

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Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

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Episode 10 of My Real Estate Show™. EXP just bought Next Home and dropped its NASDAQ ticker. Real laid out exactly how it plans to make $35 million plus a year off the Remax deal. Zillow and Realtor.com locked arms to share pre-market listings against Compass and the private listing networks. Three industry-shaking moves in one week. Episode 10 of My Real Estate Show™ is live.

Chapters:

00:00 Cold open and intros

01:31 EXP acquires Next Home and drops its ticker for AGNT

04:03 Multi-model platform and the airline industry comparison

05:15 The arms race and the squeeze in the middle

07:20 Why the franchise model is on its way out

09:51 What franchise owners actually own

11:03 Keller Williams and the investment firm play

12:25 Will Compass buy Keller Williams next?

12:52 Real's first earnings call since the Remax announcement

14:30 The 700,000 transaction sides and the attachment rate math

16:45 Why investors needed cooling down after the announcement

18:32 No agent disruption is the promise. We will see who keeps it.

20:15 Real's agent count, the MLM cycle, and buying agents to keep growth going

23:25 Zillow and Realtor.com share pre-market listings

24:12 The shot at Compass and the private listing networks

25:53 The brokerage lineup already enrolled

27:54 Why Zillow started this fight in the first place

28:59 The case for a viable nationwide MLS

29:35 The bottom line on consolidation vs transparency

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Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

Get in Touch with Host Josh Ries on Instagram @RealEstateBrokerJosh

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Episode 9 of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett and co-host Josh Ries cover three stories the rest of the industry is too polished to touch.

LPT Realty quietly reserved the NASDAQ ticker LPTA. Sandi Lyn and Josh dig into why going public fast is not a badge of honor, why Morgan Stanley reps say successful companies wait 10 to 16 years to go public, and why agents at any brokerage that goes public lose their seat in the room. Plus the vanity metric problem: the industry brags about agent count while only 8 percent of agents nationally closed a deal in 2024.

Then a hot reaction segment. IG creator John Dorsey, with nearly 800,000 followers, documented a complete Airbnb scam from a host with a criminal record. He brought receipts. Airbnb banned Dorsey for harassment and left the scammer's listing live. Sandi Lyn and Josh break down why Airbnb's dispute resolution is weighted toward hosts, what the platform should be doing instead, and why Sandi Lyn is sticking with hotels.

And the true crime story Sandi Lyn could not let sit. Portland real estate agent & loan officer were sentenced on May 5 for a $17 million Ponzi scheme run out of a fix and flip. Both pleaded guilty.

Chapters:

00:00 Cold open and intros

03:08 LPT Realty reserves NASDAQ ticker LPTA

05:08 Michael Valdez, EXP, and the playbook

07:32 Why going public fast is not a flex

08:52 Should real estate brokerages even be public companies?

10:55 Why Josh asked Sandi Lyn if My Real Estate Company™ would ever go public

12:46 EXP's lightning in a jar moment during 2020

15:36 The agent count vanity metric problem

17:08 Why 78 percent of our agents closed 2+ deals last year and 8 percent did nationally

18:39 The Airbnb scam reaction segment begins

21:00 John Dorsey breaks down the bird shit, fake invoices, and the criminal record

27:35 What Airbnb should have done

32:39 Airbnb banned the whistleblower instead of the host 36:00 Why Sandi Lyn is sticking with hotels

39:27 The Portland Ponzi: Christensen and Maddock sentenced

40:55 The structure of the $17 million scheme

42:55 Portland's commercial real estate collapse

44:02 Sandi Lyn's 2017 telework pitch that got laughed out of the room

49:08 The lesson for agents who want to work with investors

53:00 Wrap

My Real Estate Show™ goes live every weekday at 12 CST. The conversations the rest of the industry is too careful to have. No recruiting pitch, no agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

Get in Touch with Host Josh Ries on Instagram @RealEstateBrokerJosh

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Episode 7 of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett and co-host Josh Ries, an Inman contributor, lead generation consultant, and managing broker, run through the news the rest of the industry is too polished to cover.

HUD Assistant Secretary Craig Trainor's letter to agents accused NAR of misguided advice on the crime and school steering question. NAR fired back with a blog post defending its decades-old guidance and disputing HUD's gag order framing. Sandi Lyn and Josh break down why NAR has been lazy on training, why fair housing keeps getting used as a gotcha tool against agents, and the case that brokerages, not the federal government, should be the ones holding agents accountable.

Plus a teaser for tomorrow's episode with Tim, the longtime ReMax agent who jumped to Real just before the acquisition was announced. And the bigger question: what is NAR actually good for now that they have stopped backing their local associations?

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Chapters:

00:00 Cold open and intros

01:46 Tomorrow's guest teased, the Real-Max acquisition jab

02:45 UWM vs Cross Country bidding war for Two Harbors

05:18 Consolidation and the trash taking itself out

08:39 Teaser for Tim, the ReMax agent who jumped to Real before the deal

10:40 Why Congress has egg on its face after the Anywhere Compass merger

13:14 HUD calls NAR's crime and school guidance misguided

14:30 Holly played last year's HUD video next to this year's

15:46 First time in 10 years the federal government openly told NAR they were wrong

17:34 Why the both-hands-tied approach hurts agents and clients

19:26 Fair housing used as a gotcha and the Forewarn app problem

22:51 NAR finally getting knocked down a peg

26:23 The real question: what is NAR actually good for now

28:07 How NAR could right the ship with free CEs and real training

31:00 Josh's grassroots ask: share the show

My Real Estate Show™ goes live every weekday at 12 CST. The conversations the rest of the industry is too careful to have. No recruiting pitch, no agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

Get in Touch with Host Josh Ries on Instagram @RealEstateBrokerJosh

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Episode 6 of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett sits down with Brennan Cook, the newly licensed managing broker for West Virginia, in his first appearance on the show. Producer Brian holds it down behind the board.

Tracy Tutor of Million Dollar Listing LA Left Douglas Elliman for Compass, taking her 18-person team and expanding into Beverly Hills, Dallas, and Austin. Sandi Lyn and Brennan dig into why agents cycle through brokerages, what it actually costs to recruit a name like Tutor, and the speculation around her recent lawsuit against the Alexander Brothers, the convicted former Elliman agents.

Then the conversation goes into how Sandi Lyn and Brennan actually met. A LinkedIn comment, a Texas farm and ranch sign, and a layoff at EXP after a year where Brennan was senior manager over US teams that closed 117,000 transactions and $34 billion in volume. Brennan walks through the brutal process of earning his West Virginia broker's license, which Sandi Lyn compares to the paperwork load of a Department of Defense secret clearance.

Plus the Birkin bag philosophy of brokerage building, why Brennan went to bat for customer service over price, and why agents at this brokerage thank Sandi Lyn for the extra forms instead of complaining about them.

Heads up: the ReMax and Real tech adoption fight and the CoStar Q1 numbers got pushed to the next episode. West Virginia opening took the room and earned it.

Brokerage contact: [email protected]

Connect with Brennan if you are a West Virginia agent: come holler at your boy.

Chapters: 00:00 Cold open and intros 02:15 Tracy Tutor left Elliman for Compass 03:58 Why agents cycle through brokerages 04:49 The Alexander Brothers angle 08:17 The Birkin bag philosophy 10:09 Customer service as the differentiator 12:05 Why agents thank us for the extra paperwork 16:44 How Sandi Lyn and Brennan met 18:40 Brennan's EXP background and the layoff 22:29 The West Virginia broker's license process 26:09 Networking and getting comfortable being uncomfortable 31:18 Wrap and what is coming next

My Real Estate Show™ goes live every weekday at 12 CST. The conversations the rest of the industry is too careful to have. No recruiting pitch, no agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

Get in Touch with Brennan on Instagram @Brennan_Cook

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Episode 5 of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett and co-host Josh, an Inman contributor and managing broker, run through the news the rest of the industry is too polished to cover. Producer Brian holds it down behind the board.

HUD Assistant Secretary Craig Trainor sent an open letter confirming agents do not violate the Fair Housing Act by discussing crime statistics or school quality with clients. That walks back years of NAR guidance telling agents to redirect those questions to third party tools or the local police department.

Then the brokerage shake-up. Keller Williams named Christopher Brodhead as Chief Revenue Officer. Douglas Elliman tapped Lena Johnson, formerly of one Sotheby's, as national brokerage president. Anywhere CEO told a gathering audience the same week that scale is becoming a superpower for brokerages.

On the legal side, Compass and United Real Estate filed motions to settle in the Tikori commission case. Weichert is pushing for a stay. Compass also filed a motion to dismiss certain counterclaims from Northwest MLS, and the private listing network fight is heating up.

Plus a side trip into cancel culture, the Carson King story, and a Mafia Wars confession from 2008 that has nothing to do with chocolate.

Chapters and timestamps:

00:00 Cold open: HUD kicked the door off two regulations in 24 hours

02:15 Topic 1: HUD rolls back NAR guidance on crime stats and school quality

03:30 Josh's law enforcement perspective on agents sending clients to the police department

04:50 Why this hits hardest for military clients buying sight unseen

06:37 NAR ducked training by telling agents not to talk at all

07:43 The woke culture problem with home buying advice

09:26 Were agents actually getting in trouble for this?

10:41 HUD Secretary Scott Turner calls the prior posture DEI ideology

11:28 NAR's non-committal response and the energy efficiency rule rescinded

14:33 Topic 2: KW and Elliman C-suite moves

15:42 Realty of America enters Tennessee with 3,000 agents in 18 months

17:30 Anywhere CEO says scale is becoming a superpower

19:46 Backbone, ownership, and what cancel culture cost

25:32 Topic 3: Compass and United settle Tikori, private listing fight ramps up

27:38 Information is going to flow freely whether NAR likes it or not

My Real Estate Show™ goes live every weekday at 12 CST. The conversations the rest of the industry is too careful to have. No recruiting pitch, no agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

Get in Touch with Host Josh Ries on Instagram @RealEstateBrokerJosh

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This is the bonus episode of My Real Estate Show™. CEO Sandi Lyn Burnett and Director of Advancement Josh sit down for the first livestream test of the show, with Producer Brian running the board. No agenda. No downline pitch. Two trailblazers in real estate talking about what actually happens when you challenge the system.

The main story: an Iowa association dropped every My Real Estate Company™ agent in the state without citing a single broken rule. Their reasoning came from a LinkedIn article Sandi Lyn wrote about leaving NAR six months earlier. Listings got pulled at the end of the business day. Agents and clients took the hit. Three hours later, a new association welcomed the brokerage in.

Sandi Lyn and Josh break down what really happened, why associations and MLSs are losing their grip on agents, and how the agents themselves reacted across the spectrum. Some got fired up and switched. One got motivated to earn his broker's license. One walked away because the risk was too high. All of it, unfiltered.

Brokerage contact: [email protected]

Chapters and timestamps:

00:00 Cold open and YouTube thumbnail talk

02:15 Welcome to the My Real Estate Show™ pilot

02:54 Josh introduces himself, Director of Advancement and South Dakota managing broker

03:35 Producer Brian and the Marine Corps backstory

07:25 Why this show is built different from the standard real estate podcast

08:20 The truth about being a trailblazer in this industry

09:21 The Iowa story begins: how one association dropped every agent in the state

12:08 No due process, no rule violation, no warning

14:30 How a dropped primary membership cascaded across every Iowa agent

17:31 NAR is losing members and associations are losing relevance

20:04 The video Sandi Lyn made and the response from agents nationwide

22:04 Three categories of agent reactions to getting kicked out

25:14 The new association said yes in three hours

26:08 Wrap

The day after Real Brokerage agreed to buy RE/MAX for $880 million, the big three of US real estate has a new shape. Compass. Keller Williams. Real. The middle of the market is officially gone.

Sandi and Josh dig into day two of the deal: why Real's stock dropped while RE/MAX's climbed, the cult-like welcome wagon from real agents already calling RE/MAX agents "family," and the Tamir Poleg lawsuits hanging over the whole thing.

They also get into the OpenAI vs Musk lawsuit (with an unexpected detour about whether they'd live on Mars), Texas brokers appealing NAR mandatory membership the same day EXP files to reincorporate there, and the Trump administration putting LA wildfire mortgage recovery under a microscope.

Chapters

00:00 Cold open

01:05 Intros

02:24 Real/RE/MAX day 2: the big three is born

14:17 OpenAI vs Musk and a Mars detour

22:47 Texas brokers appeal NAR + EXP reincorporates

27:52 Sam Stair update and Trump admin on LA wildfire recovery

34:16 Industry reactions to the Real RE/MAX deal

39:26 Wrap

My Real Estate Show™ goes live every weekday at 12 CST. The conversations the rest of the industry is too careful to have. No recruiting pitch, no agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

Get in Touch with Host Sandi Lyn Burnett on Instagram @IAmSandiLyn

Get in Touch with Host Josh Ries on Instagram @RealEstateBrokerJosh

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