On these numbers the agent farming it should list around 1 a year, assuming we win 2% of the homes that turn over. Right now, that agent is nobody.
Every one of those sales is a listing, and it goes to whoever the neighborhood already knows. When one of them is yours, the $9K is yours too — no fee at closing, ever, and no share of it to us.
The Arbor is bigger than most solo coverage areas. Most agents start with a smaller pocket inside it, sized on a call to the listings you want out of it; teams can take the whole neighborhood as a market exclusive. Either way it stays one agent (or one team) per area — talk to us and we’ll carve it honestly.
We have graded 342 neighborhoods in Charleston, SC. Here is where The Arbor sits among them.
Size
42nd largest of 342 — a typical Charleston, SC neighborhood here has 642.
Turnover
323rd fastest of 342 — the midpoint across this market is 4.3%.
Median list price
307th highest of 342 — the midpoint here is $453K.
The Arbor is a lot of doors that turn over slowly. Nothing is wrong with that — it is how the steadiest farms look — but it is the profile that most needs the full year. Judge it on twelve months, not on the third card.
The agent, the brokerage and the neighborhood printed on this card are a sample. We won’t mock one up with your name on it before we’ve built your list — what you’re looking at is the real print file: the layout, the trim, and the words that go to press.
The first of every month, whether it was a busy month for you or not. You don’t approve anything, and there is no month where the card doesn’t go.
If we ever miss a month, that month is free. That’s a term, not an adjective — an absolute promise is only worth what happens when we break it.
Nothing is queued for The Arbor today — no agent holds it, so there is nothing to be running. That date is counted from today: we take about 10 days between a signature and a press run to build the mailable list, pull the just-solds, and put a proof of your card in your hands.
We ask for the full twelve months because that’s how long a neighborhood takes to pay back — and if you ever absolutely need to stop, just let us know.
Marketing the way it used to work: pick one neighborhood, show up every month, become the agent the whole neighborhood thinks of. We do the showing up.
Any one of these helps. Stacked, they compound — and the estimate above is a starting point, not a ceiling.