Real Estate News and Information in Silicon Valley: 71% of agents closed 0 transactions last in 2025. Would you bid $1?

Monday, March 2, 2026

71% of agents didn't close a single transaction in 2025. Not a typo.

(And that's directly from NAR)

Why?

I think it's the fact that the way most agents are taught to get business makes it like assembling IKEA furniture in the dark.

Impossible and scary!

Maybe I'm the only one afraid of the dark :-)

Cold calling strangers who don't want to be bothered.

Sweating through listing presentations.

Chasing buyers who ghost.

I stopped doing all of that.

Now I reach out to property owners and make them an offer.

(AI finds the buyers for me!)

They almost always want to hear about an offer.

If the offer doesn't fit, we pivot to listing it on the market.

Last month I picked up two potential listing appointments in 10 minutes at my daughter's softball practice.

Just tapping to text & email on my phone - to cold contacts.

Just fat-fingered my way to TWO listings in 10 min.

It's almost copy-and-paste-able.

Anyway. I've been thinking...

What if I worked side-by-side with ONE person, acting as their "wingman", and helped them secure 3 listings in the next 30 days...

...then got at least one of them sold within about 14 days after that?

Me. Personally. With them as they make contacts.

On their seller calls with them. Handling the scary parts until those parts aren't scary anymore.

I'm thinking about running some kind of auction for this.

Bidding would start at $1.

No idea if anyone would actually want this.

Let me know by replying 1, 2, or 3

1 🔥 Heck YES!!! I'd bid on that.
2 🤔 Maybe. I already got lotsa deals lined up.
3 👋 Not for me right now.

Is this something you'd be into?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree here 🤷‍♂️

-Josh

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