Why I Switched to eXp During Industry Chaos

The Compass-Anywhere merger just became official. A $1.5 billion deal that creates the industry's largest consolidation.

While agents everywhere are panicking about what this means for their careers, I made a different move. I switched to eXp.

Not because I was running from something. Because I was running toward something fundamentally different.

From Copper to Platinum

I've been at six different brokerages over my career. Lokation, Dalton Wade, Signature Real Estate, and others.

If I had to rank them like precious metals, most were copper. Keller Williams was silver. eXp is platinum.

At every copper-level brokerage, the pattern was identical. The only time the broker talked to me was when I called them. The only time I got support was when I physically drove to their office.

I was a nameless, invisible person who might as well not have existed.

Keller Williams changed that with world-class training. But building my business there meant doing all the work myself. If I wanted help growing faster, I had to join a team and give up 30, 40, even 60% of my commission.

The brokerage wanted me in their training program. That cost me commission to their productivity coach too.

The eXp Difference

At eXp, nothing is expected of me to give up except the cap. The same cap I paid everywhere else, just slightly less.

But here's what's different. They help me build my business as a realtor without taking commission. And they help me attract agents to my organization within eXp.

My upline Jay Kinder runs a program where I get leads sent directly to me. Both buyer and seller leads. I work them, close them, keep 100% of the commission after cap.

Jay doesn't take anything from my deals. He benefits because I'm in his organization, he gets revenue share from my cap payments.

This creates a fundamentally different incentive structure. Instead of taking from my success, he invests in it.

The Numbers Tell the Story

While existing home sales dropped 3.7% from March 2023 to March 2024, eXp saw 8% growth in the same period.

The company logged 350,119 transaction sides in 2024. That's more than 100,000 units ahead of their nearest competitor.

Jay Kinder's organization alone has grown to over 8,000 agents and continues doubling every 12 months.

These aren't accident. They're the result of aligning incentives properly.

The MLM Myth

Before joining, I heard the criticism. "eXp agents don't work. They just recruit other agents like some MLM scheme."

That's completely wrong.

Agents are conducting serious business, helping each other succeed, and providing high-level training across multiple topics. The revenue sharing component enhances their real estate business, it doesn't replace it.

The technology platform is genuinely useful and easily navigated. It handles every aspect of an agent's business and accelerates growth.

Strategic Move, Not Reactive

The Compass-Anywhere consolidation will create approximately 340,000 real estate professionals under one roof. That's market dominance through acquisition.

But market share isn't everything. Culture and support systems matter more.

eXp's model creates what I call "service before money" at scale. Everyone in your upline benefits from your success, so everyone has skin in the game to help you win.

Traditional brokerages extract value from agents. eXp invests in agent success because that's how they win too.

In a consolidating industry, that difference becomes your competitive advantage.

The question isn't whether to make a move. It's whether you're moving toward something better, or just running from something worse.

I chose platinum.