The referral-only brokerage affiliated with Mainframe Real Estate
Mainframe Referrals is a separate real estate brokerage that strictly provides referral services for real estate licensees.
With Mainframe Referrals, a real estate licensee can maintain an active license, refer buyers and sellers to actively working agents, but not have to pay fees to the MLS or Realtor associations.
Agents with Mainframe Referrals receive a referral fee from the commission when the property closes.
Become a Confident Referral Partner
Become affiliated with Mainframe Real Estate, an innovative brokerage comprised of exceptional real estate agents. Be confident knowing that our experienced agents will take excellent care of your referrals – while you make money simply connecting people!
- Keep Your License Active
- No Realtor or MLS Fees
- Earn Referral Comission
- Cancel Anytime
Example Referral Scenario
You refer a buyer or seller to an active sales agent at Mainframe Real Estate.
The customer closes on a $400,000 sale with a 3% commission. Referral fees are negotiable, but this scenario has the sales agent paying a 25% referral fee back to you.
Gross Commission
Gross Referral Commission
Referral Commission To You
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Frequestly Asked Questions
The information in the FAQ is covered in the Independent Contractor Agreement and Policies during the sign up process.
Mainframe Referrals allows you to keep your real estate license active but without having to pay REALTOR and MLS fees.
Because your license is active, you are ready and able to send referrals at any time and receive referral commissions.
Your cost is only $29 per month, paid by credit card. There is a one-time fee to join of $100 unless it is waived by a limited-time promotional discount.
No. You can cancel your monthly payments at any time and we will deactivate your license. If you choose to rejoin, you will be required to pay the $100 signup fee.
The commission split is simple.
If referred to a Mainframe agent, 95% of the referral commission is paid to you and 5% is paid to us.
If referred to an agent outside of Mainframe, 90% of the referral commission is paid to you and 10% is paid to us.
For example, if you earn a $1,000 referral commission sent to a Mainframe agent, you receive a $950 payment.
No, you cannot perform real estate activities at Mainframe Referrals.
This includes advertising, negotiating, showing properties, listing homes, leasing property, managing property, and all other types of real estate activities. But truly, that’s what is so great about it. By just referring prospective buyers and sellers, you can earn significant referral fees with almost no effort.
Once we receive the commission check and all documents, we will immediately begin the process of disbursing your commission.
On your first commission payout, we will request your W9 form and either bank account information for ACH (direct deposit) payments or an address to send a check. ACH payments are significantly faster than mailed checks. After your first payment, we will release your funds in the same manner without delay.
Please note we can only send funds to the exact name as your license with the DBPR.
Yes. You can receive referral commissions from a real estate company in any state in the United States, and even in other countries where it’s legal in that country to send referral fees back to you.
For example, you could refer a buyer or seller to an agent in California and receive a referral commission when the transaction closes.
To be certain, ask your tax professional. You are incurring expenses in order to earn potential commission income, all your payments to Mainframe Referrals should be tax deductible.
Referral fees are negotiable and typically range between 20-30% of the gross commission received by the Sales Agent you refer the customer to.
To protect you, our policy is that you cannot receive less than 15% commission but also not receive more than 35% which is unusually high and may give the impression you performed real estate activities in the transaction.
For properties owned by you, you can sell, lease or manage them as an owner.
You do not need to process the transaction through Mainframe Referrals if you are not receiving a referral commission. You should contribute any commission toward closing costs which, is not taxable income like a referral commission.
Contact your tax professional for all tax advice.
Technically, you can refer landlords and tenants. Unfortunately, rental commissions are very small and it is often cost prohibitive to send referral commissions. For that reason, we may not be able to connect you with an agent and we cannot guarantee a referral commission.
If you want to become a REALTOR again, you first should cancel your membership to Mainframe Referrals to stop your payments.
You are welcome to move your license to any real estate company at any time and you do not need to give notice other than cancelling your membership with us.
If you want to discuss joining Mainframe Real Estate as an agent, email [email protected].
