I learned that watching it happen, one appointment at a time. So I built something to fix it.
One day like any other, I was running a solar appointment in Palm Springs when my client spent the better part of our time together venting about a horrible experience they'd had with a well-known and mostly loved local realtor. I actually know this realtor personally. I found it interesting that they'd had that experience, but knowing both personalities, it didn't surprise me.
It wasn't that the realtor had a bad attitude or was a bad person. Far from it. I could just see that this client needed a softer touch, and this realtor excels in structured, buttoned-up processes. Neither of those things is a flaw. Put together, though, they simply didn't mesh.
I've watched some version of that moment play out for years. And more times than not, the real issue isn't competence or effort. It's communication, or more specifically, a mismatch in personalities.
I've spent twenty years in sales, ten of them in in-home sales right here in the Coachella Valley, most recently selling solar at Hot Purple Energy. Every bit of training, every mentor, every hard lesson has come back to the same thing: building relationships. But nobody had ever applied that thinking to how people actually find their real estate agent.
Over the past decade working alongside home buyers, sellers, and agents across the valley, I've had a front-row seat to both the wins and the woes of the transaction. The deals that went smoothly almost always had one thing in common, and it wasn't price or timing. It was two people who genuinely understood how to work with each other.
One day it hit me. We match people for love on apps. We match for friendship, for careers, for roommates. Why were we still throwing darts at a board of names when it came to something this serious, this stressful, and this expensive?
That question became Agentry. Like the big bang, swirling infinite particles of possibility, I saw a source of peace of mind for thousands, maybe millions of people navigating one of the biggest decisions of their lives. Over the next year and a half I spent every spare hour, late nights, weekends, and early mornings, researching, building, and refining what this could be.
The result is a platform that matches home buyers and sellers with real estate agents based on personality and communication style, before anyone ever picks up the phone.
My hope is simple. I want you to walk into one of the biggest decisions of your life with the right person already in your corner. Someone who communicates the way you need, who shows up the way you need when things get tense, who makes the hard moments feel manageable.
That is the peace of mind I went looking for that day in Palm Springs. It's what Agentry is here to give you, right from the start.
Five minutes. Fifteen questions. Your top matches, ranked by compatibility.