Under Contract

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Jase Leonard leads HousingAroundAZ, a real estate team based in Chandler, Arizona, in the Phoenix metro market. Before real estate, he built and directed a corporate call center — and walked away from the job rather than lay off half his staff. His first six months in real estate produced exactly one transaction, and his wife gave him one final shot to make it work. Eleven years later, Jase runs a 14-agent te...

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Roxanne Humes is a real estate agent and team leader with Coldwell Banker in the Pittsburgh area. Before real estate, she spent years as a buyer for May Company (Filene's in Boston, then Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh), and later helped grow a wholesale apparel company to $40M in revenue — until the 2009 financial crisis, tied to the owner's real estate investments, ended that chapter. At 42, with her husband's blessing an...

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Richard Berman is a real estate agent with RenoSparksHomes.com in Reno, Nevada. He got into real estate eight years ago after a mentor showed him his GCI and Richard asked, on the spot, how to get his license — leaving a $140K/year B2B sales job in the process. His first year netted just $14,000 after expenses. Eight years later, he closed 120 transactions last year and is on pace for roughly 150 this year — wi...

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Chip Hodgkins is the broker/owner of Hodgkins Homes in Syracuse, New York, leading a 10-agent team with a database of over 123,000 contacts. A serial entrepreneur who built and sold roughly 14 businesses — including scaling a bearings company from $350M to $720M before selling to Emerson Electric — Chip "retired" at 40, only to be pushed into real estate by his wife days later. He closed his first two listings ...

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Ali Keys is the broker/owner of Got Keyed Realty, serving Dearborn and the greater Southeast Michigan area. He was studying to become a doctor when limited finances forced him to step away from medical school — a decision one of his professors warned him he'd regret. Instead, Ali closed three sale-by-owner deals in his first 30 days in real estate and never looked back. Over a decade later, he's trained hundreds of a...

Sondra Hernandez is the broker/owner of Cobblestone Realty Partners in Enid, Oklahoma, with 23 years in the business. She spent two decades running an accounting department before a friend nudged her into real estate — a career she says she's never once looked back from. Sondra built a multilingual brokerage (three languages spoken in her office) and a business defined by one non-negotiable standard: she responds to clients i...

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Jayson Burtch leads a top-producing real estate team in Southwest Florida, expanding up the state's west coast into St. Pete, Sarasota, and Naples. He got his start in real estate at 18 after inheriting exposure to real estate investing through his grandfather's rental portfolio, but the real turning point came a decade later — a coaching program in 2012 that took his business from reactive and market-dependent to fu...

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Ben Nemec is a real estate agent and team leader in Huntsville, Alabama, running Team Nemec / Huntsville Homes For You. He got his start in real estate after his mother-in-law, a longtime Huntsville agent, brought him on as a partner following an unconventional path through hospitality management, nonprofit sports sponsorships, and a near-miss Coast Guard officer application. Thirteen years later, Ben leads a team buil...

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Drew Wyant is a real estate agent and broker/owner in Columbus, Indiana, running a 1% Lists franchise that now spans nearly the entire state. After leaving a 10-year healthcare career and getting licensed in 2021, Drew built his business from 11 sales in his first year to 130+ in a single year as an individual agent — while also growing a team of 23+ agents managing roughly 100 active listings and 75 pendings at any ...