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.

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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

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 or agenda, just the daily real estate entertainment you've been missing.

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