@Darren Elliott I get some that are very personalized and look to be low volume, hand addressed and hand signed.

Just realize you'll need to focus on volume.

At a low volume, many of the big name brokerages are also worth it because the training and support is incredible and you’re net net not paying that much.

@Theodor Kim If I were to start as a new broker I'd start with a high producing team ($20M+ yearly volume, you can ask for their volume when interviewing the teams) rather than trying to figuring everything out on my own. keep in mind that it would be very likely that you couldn't make much money as a broker in the first year or two in real unless you are a complete exception.

In building my transaction volume and working with investors, I've struck up a JV partnership with a client who bought a flip with me as his agent.  

“There is still a very small percentage of single family tenants who requested a payment plan or who had not made any rent payments.”Exactly half of the members surveyed reported that new management contracts had increased in October, and half said the volume had decreased.

Houston Real Estate Highlights in JuneSingle-family home sales rebounded from two consecutive monthly declines, jumping 15.7 percent year-over-year with 9,328 units sold;The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes grew from 50 to 56 days;Total property sales soared 18.3 percent with 11,153 units sold;Total dollar volume climbed 15.1 percent to $3.3 billion;Single-family home sales rebounded from two consecutive monthly declines, jumping 15.7 percent year-over-year with 9,328 units sold;The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes grew from 50 to 56 days;Total property sales soared 18.3 percent with 11,153 units sold;Total dollar volume climbed 15.1 percent to $3.3 billion;The single-family home median price set a new record high of $262,000 as it rose 3.6 percent year-over year;The single-family home average price declined 0.6 percent to $319,881;Single-family homes months of inventory was at a 3.2-months supply, down from 4.3 months last June and below the national inventory level of 4.8 months;Townhome/condominium sales reversed three monthly declines, rising 1.9 percent, with the average price down 5.4 percent to $212,216 and the median price down 1.8 percent to $174,350;Single-family home rentals jumped 15.3 percent with the average rent down 1.0 percent to $1,906;Volume of townhome/condominium leases was unchanged with the average rent up 7.9 percent to $1,731.

We are still far from having an ample housing supply to balance out buyer demand in the Austin metro.Mortgage rates have somewhat stabilized around the ~6.5% range in recent months:However, the volume of new mortgage applications (blue in the chart below) remains the lowest it has been in at least 10 years:The chart below shows the median sales price of a single-family home in Austin over the past 5 years.

Summary: Low inventory (per usual) and lower sales volume than previous yearHigh desirability continues in Hillsborough, Rockingham and Strafford County.

I am longing for a one stop solution but until then I am hoping to find out what others are utilizing and please keep in mind we generate a lot of volume.