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Realtor Referral Hub — Group Rules & Regulations

The complete rulebook, in plain words. Written down Nov 3, 2026.

The referral policies these rules sit on top of: Referral Policies

Everything below is the rule for everybody — no side deals, no exceptions. If the board ever has your metro wrong, say so and it gets fixed.

1. What this group is

The Realtor Referral Network is one network of local realtors who hand each other clients the right way: matched by a person, on paper, at closing. The main room is the Realtor Referral Hub on Facebook. The Worldwide Real Estate Partnerships room and the Worldwide Corporate Relocation room are doors into the same network — same territory board, same count, same race. There is not a separate race in each group.

Homeowners get matched to a vetted local realtor free. Realtors race for the metro they serve: the realtor who holds a metro is first in line for every referral in it.

Run by Steven Mock, REALTOR® with Platinum Realty in Missouri — he holds Kansas City himself and works all of Missouri and Kansas. Everything else runs through the local partner who holds that metro.

2. The Three Doors

This is our entire referral model. Every explanation of the program, everywhere, is these three doors — all three, always.

Door 1 — Referral Chase. Sign once. One short agreement, signed on your phone in about a minute, covers every referral we ever send you — no new paper per deal. When a referral lands in your metro, you hear about it first, before anything is posted publicly. All you see at first is the metro, buyer or seller, and the grade. Say yes, and the client's name and details unlock. You pay only when it closes: at closing, 25% of your side goes to the agent who sent the client, and 5% goes to us — no cap. You keep 70% of your side. If it doesn't close, you pay nothing. Referral Chase is never called "free" — it costs nothing to join and nothing upfront, and the fees land at closing.

Door 2 — Your territory. Pay for your territory and you're first in line for your whole area. Two ways to pay for the year:

• $1,995 once — the metro is yours for the full year (see §3).
• $250 a month — a way to pay for the year, protected in 6-month terms for as long as you keep paying (see §3).

You can claim an open metro only. Paying never takes a metro away from an agent who earned it by producing.

Door 3 — Earn it. Hit 25 counted points and the metro is yours — locked for 3 months, free (see §3 and §5). Points come from invites that land (1 each) and referrals you bring that get placed (25 each). Costs nothing — just the work.

Signing makes you eligible to receive. A territory — paid for or earned — puts you first in line. On the national website, matching runs in order: Premium Agents first, then Referral Chase members, then everyone else.

3. The Protection Ladder

Every Premium seat carries a protection window — but the earned window and the paid windows protect differently.

• Earn 25 counted points → locked in for 3 months, free. Inside the lock you owe no produce-or-sell bar (§9), and nobody can buy the seat out from under you. But a bigger count can still pass you — a challenger with a bigger counted total takes the metro. The earned lock protects against everything except production. When your 3 months run out, keep the metro one of two ways: pay half price — $997.50 for the year or $125 a month (6-month terms) — or invite 100 people a week. Do neither and the metro opens up.
• Pay $250 a month → protected in 6-month terms. Each term runs 6 months and renews for as long as your payments stay current. Inside a current term, production cannot take your metro — nobody passes you at all. Stop paying and the hold ends.
• Pay the $1,995 year → the metro is yours for the full 12 months. No monthly produce-or-sell bar during your year, and no production takeover — nobody passes you at all during the year. At year end the metro opens unless you renew.

Owners' half-off: realtors who already hold a metro here get Door 2 at half price — $997.50 once, or $125 a month.

Outside these windows, production beats money: whoever produces more holds the metro.

4. Premium Agents

The realtor who holds a metro is titled that metro's Premium Agent — every holder, all three routes in: paid (Door 2), earned (Door 3), or the 90-day top-inviter hold (§6). "Territory" is the name of the thing held; Premium Agent is the title of the person who holds it.

The ladder reads:

Racer → Premium Agent → Governor

Governor is the top of the ladder: 2,000 counted people TOTAL — lifetime, not in one month. The first five realtors to reach 2,000 counted take the five Governor seats, lock their metro permanently, and earn the seat. Governor is earned only — it is never sold, and paying never buys it. The old Governor ladder is gone.

5. The Race — counted points

Every realtor in the network is racing for the metro they serve, on one board and one count.

How you get counted points:

• A realtor you invite joins and lands = 1 counted point.
• A referral you bring that gets placed = 25 counted points.

25 counted points claims your metro (and starts the earned 3-month lock in §3).

Verified vs claimed: the official board separates counted points into verified (checked against the group's own records) and claimed (reported, awaiting check). The board is the official score — if it has your metro or your count wrong, say so and it gets fixed. Claimed isn't safe: once you're holding, most counted points holds the metro, subject to the protection windows in §3.

Post your metro when you bring a need or claim one.

6. The 90-day hold

Separate rule, and different from the earned lock in §3: the top inviter toward an unclaimed metro holds it for 90 days. This is a provisional hold before a claim — it is not the 3-month lock, and it doesn't require 25 counted points. It keeps the metro warm for the realtor bringing the most people toward it while it's still unclaimed.

7. Moderators

• There are at most 20 working moderator seats.
• A moderator keeps a working seat by producing each month: 200 counted people a month, OR $500 in Partner-code sales.
• There is no pay option for a moderator seat — a seat is kept by the work, never bought. (One approvals-only seat exists that doesn't count toward the 20 or the production bar.)
• Moderators are part of the invite engine (§10): inviting is how moderators keep their seat.

Territories and moderator seats are judged monthly. The first check covers November 2–30 and is judged December 1.

8. Referral Chase — how placements run

• Sign once, sign before information. On every agent-to-agent request, the receiving agent signs the standing finder's-fee agreement before any client information is released — until then, every surface (the group post, the email, the DM) shows the metro, the side, and the lead grade only. One signed agreement covers every lead routed to you afterward.
• The fees at closing: the receiving broker pays 25% of the receiving side to the agent who sent the client, plus a 5% finder's fee to us — no cap, broker-to-broker through title. The sender's 25% is never part of any election and never capped. If it doesn't close, nothing is owed.
• Exclusive Right to Sell: a referred seller must be listed under an Exclusive Right to Sell agreement — or the state equivalent that guarantees the commission no matter who brings the buyer — never an exclusive agency or an open listing. That listing type is what keeps the commission, and the referral fee carved from it, payable at closing.
• The title company: when your client goes under contract, send us the title company's name and contact email within three business days (the contract page that names it is the easy way). We email the title company a copy of the signed agreement ourselves, early, so the fee lands on the settlement statement. At closing, once the closing is verified against the settlement statement, we issue a numbered invoice for the fee to the receiving broker — and to the title company whenever we hold its contact info before funding, so the fee can come straight off the settlement.
• Check-ins are your job, not ours. When you receive a client from us, you check in with us: your first check-in is due within one business day (confirm you've made contact, or that you're trying), then at least every 14 days while the client is active, and at every change — under contract, a closing date set, the deal died, the client went quiet. Why, plainly: our outreach runs on a capped number of Facebook messages, and every message spent chasing a silent partner is one that can't find the next referral. A missed check-in is logged, and two missed check-ins in a row means no new referrals to that partner until they are current again.
• If a deal is reported dead: at about 90 days, and again before the agreement's 12-month window ends, we check the county deed and assessor records under the client's name. A recorded transfer to the receiving agent, their brokerage, or their team inside the window is evidence the fee is owed, and the non-payment steps in the Referral Policies apply.
• Homeowner placements are different: when the homeowner is ours — they came through our website or our group — this network is the referring side and the standard 25% comes to us; there is no separate finder's fee on those.
• Every signed placement gets a private tracking page, opened only by that agent's own private link. No client names are stored on the website, and no placement is public.

The full referral policies — deadlines, the non-payment steps, what counts as complete paper — are the companion page: Referral Policies.

9. Produce-or-sell — holders outside protection windows

Holding a metro takes production. Premium Agents outside any protection window (§3) keep their territory at one of these bars each month, judged monthly:

• 100 counted people, OR
• $250 in Partner-code sales, OR
• the $50/month fallback

Inside a protection window, none of this applies: the paid year carries no monthly bar at all, a monthly payer inside a current term is protected, and an earner inside the 3-month lock owes no bar (but can still be passed by a bigger count — §3). After a window ends, the bars apply again, and whoever produces more holds the metro.

10. Who invites

The seats are the invite engine. Inviting is done by:

• Moderators — it's how they keep their seat (§7).
• Premium Agents (territory holders) — it's how they defend their metro.
• People who want a premium seat — it's how they earn one (Door 3, §2).

Not Steven, and not our own email-invite batches. The Hub is the preferred door, and joins through the sister groups (Partnerships and Relocation) count on the same map and the same board.

Questions about any of this — ask Steven Mock or the Realtor Referral Hub directly. We would rather explain a rule up front than argue about it at a closing table.