Give every buyer you close a plan for their new home. Then get the credit for thinking of it.
The HBC Realtor Partnership is free to join. Your buyer clients get a Home Clarity Report after closing, which documents every system and upcoming project in their new house. When a question comes up six months later, they call HBC instead of calling you, and you stay top of mind as the realtor who set them up for success. Apply through the partnership form to get started.
The HBC Realtor Partnership is free to join. Your clients get a lifetime home advisor. Six months from now, when something comes up with the house, they call us instead of calling you.
Free to join · No exclusivity · Summit County
Your client closes. Then reality sets in. And eventually, they call you.
Your buyer closes on a home. They're excited. Then the list forms, the roof needs attention, the HVAC is aging, the kitchen is from 1994 and they want it gone. They don't have a contractor they trust. They don't know what anything costs. They start calling around, get five different numbers, and end up confused and frustrated.
Six months later, something goes wrong. And because you were the person who sold them the house, there's a piece of their frustration that lands on you, even when it has nothing to do with you.
The Home Clarity Report changes this completely.
When you refer a client to HBC after closing, they get a complete expert assessment of their new home in 5 business days. Honest pricing on every project from someone with no stake in the work. A vetted trade network already briefed on their home. And a lifetime advisor in Adam Kilgore, one call, forever, for every question. Your client feels taken care of. You're the person who made it happen. That's a referral relationship that generates business for years.
What the HBC Realtor Partnership looks like in practice.
Free to Join
No fee. No financial commitment. No exclusivity requirement. We partner with realtors who close consistently in the $300K to $800K range in Summit County, and we do it because it works for both sides.
Call Adam During Showings
Partners get direct access to Adam for quick cost estimates during active showings. Walking a home and wondering what the kitchen renovation would run? Text Adam. You'll have a real number in minutes, not days. That kind of on-call expertise makes you look sharper than any competitor.
Co-Branded Marketing Materials
We produce co-branded one-pagers and postcards for your clients, your name alongside HBC. Your buyers see you as the realtor who goes further than anyone else. We handle the design and production.
Referral Fees
For qualified referrals that convert to a Home Clarity Report, partners earn a referral fee. Specific terms are discussed on our 20-minute partnership call, but the short version is: your clients get better service and you get compensated for the introduction.
Two stamps your listings carry that no other home in Summit County has.
When a homeowner you've worked with goes through HBC, their home earns the Hometown Builders Club stamp and the Home Clarity Report stamp. Those stamps travel with the house. The next time it lists, your client's listing is the one with documented proof of care.
The stamp lifts the listing.
Buyers comparing two homes in the same neighborhood will pick the one with documented systems, scope, and condition over the one with an unknown story. The HBC stamp is the proof. You can use it directly in your listing copy and your open house materials.
The Hub stays with the home.
Every HBC home has a private digital Hub: floor plans, system records, project history, the works. When the home sells, the Hub transfers to the new owner. That's a benefit you can hand to a buyer that no competing listing offers.
However the homeowner finds us, you stay in the picture.
We will never recommend another realtor to a homeowner who already has one. If your client comes to us, you stay in the loop. If a homeowner finds us first and doesn't have a realtor yet, we connect them with one of our partners. Either way, the partnership stands.
If they come to you first.
Refer them in for a Home Clarity Report. We loop you into every conversation, send you the briefing summary, and make sure your client knows you're the reason they got the kind of help most homeowners never see. The 5-business-day Report is delivered in time for offer or post-close planning, whichever you need.
If they come to us first.
If a homeowner contacts HBC without a realtor, we tell them they need one and we send them to a partner from our trusted realtor list. You only get the call if you're already a partner. That's the entire reason this list exists.
Why realtors who partner with HBC never go back to doing without it.
Most post-close referrals feel like a favor, you hand a client a contractor's name and hope for the best. With HBC, you're giving your client something with real, documented value: a complete expert assessment of their new home, delivered in 5 business days, with a lifetime advisor included.
The client experience is dramatically better. The perception of you as the realtor who went beyond the transaction is real and lasting. And the next time they need a referral, or know someone buying a home, you're the first call they make. That's the compounding return on a free partnership.
"I refer every buyer I close to HBC. The floor plans and project scopes give my clients something they can actually use, and when something comes up six months later, they call Adam instead of calling me in a panic. Best thing I've added to my post-close process."
Mike K., Realtor, Fairlawn, Ohio
We partner with a small number of Summit County realtors at a time. Here's who we're looking for.
We'd rather have a few genuine partnerships than a long list of names. If you close 10 or more transactions per year in Summit County in the $300K to $800K home price range, and you genuinely care about the experience your clients have after closing, we'd like to talk.
We're not selective because we're exclusive, we're selective because a referral partnership only works when the referring partner actually believes in what they're referring. We'd like our partners to be the kind of realtors who would refer HBC because they think it's genuinely good for their clients, not just because there's a fee involved.
If that's you, book a 20-minute call.
A 20-minute call is all it takes.
We'll walk you through the partnership, answer every question you have, and tell you honestly whether it's a good fit. No obligation.