You've Already Proven You Can Sell. The Real Question Is What Your Brokerage Is Doing With That.
We don't recruit in volume. We build a place experienced agents move toward: an owner and broker who works on site and answers the phone, a team that puts people ahead of transactions, and training built for people who already know how to close.
Simien Properties Recruiting, by the Numbers
Why Trust Your Career With Simien Properties?
Here's what backs that up: an owner and broker who works on site, a team that puts people ahead of transactions, and training built for agents who already close.
An Active Owner and Broker
Jimmy Simien started this firm 17 years ago and still works from the same office you will. Open door, no gatekeepers, no regional support queue. When a deal turns complicated at eight at night, you're talking to the broker who owns the company.
People First. Transaction Second.
Transactions drive the business, and the functional side of real estate will only carry you so far. We build a collaborative environment where people are safe to be themselves and supported in their life and their career, because confident agents are the ones clients keep calling.
Capability, Personally and Professionally
Becoming a client's go-to agent takes two things: real expertise in the process, and the ability to understand what a client can't always put into words. Our training puts you in the real scenarios where that gets learned. A client saying yes can come down to one thing: how prepared you are to draw it out.
2:49 · Jimmy Simien on why this brokerage exists
What to Expect When Joining Simien Properties
Moving your license is a real decision.
Here's the honest version of both sides.
If You're Already Producing
Moving brokerages is a real disruption, and the agents we talk to are usually weighing what they'd lose against what they'd gain.
Your Relationships Stay Yours
Your sphere, your past clients, your referral sources. You built them. They come with you, and we help you tell them where you went.
You Drive Your Own Process
Our standard is that the agent leads the transaction, not the client and not a manager. Nobody here is going to reroute your business through a script you didn't write.
Onboarding Respects Your Experience
Nobody here will sit you through material you already know. Your onboarding is scoped to the gaps, not to a fixed curriculum, and the standards portion is the part that never gets skipped.
What You Gain
Boutique doesn't mean fewer resources. It means the resources are close to you instead of three layers up.
Access Instead of Escalation
Jimmy and Joe are on site and reachable. Contract questions, pricing calls, and difficult conversations get answered the same day.
A Concierge Team Behind You
Coordination, lender protocol, vendor network, and marketing support work as one system, so your time goes to clients rather than logistics.
Local Depth You Can Charge For
Clear Lake, Webster, League City, Friendswood, Seabrook, Pearland. Seventeen years of relationships in the corridor you're already selling in.
Contract Discipline That Protects You
Training, documentation, and agents who set expectations before they matter. That discipline is what keeps a transaction from turning into a problem.
Hands-On. Local. Standards First.
Three principles sit behind every training decision we make, and here's exactly what they look like across your first 90 days.
Hands-On Over Classroom
Real scenarios beat lectures. Listing appointments, buyer consults, inspection reviews, and negotiations get practiced in the field, not in a workbook.
Customized to Your Experience
We assess what you already know and build from there. No starting from zero if you've closed deals. No shortcuts on our standards if you haven't.
Foundation First, Always
Before you take a lead, you know our systems, our voice, our contracts, and our standards. Seventeen years serving this community isn't an accident. It's the baseline.
Your First 90 Days: Four Phases, One Standard
Foundation
- License transfer & tech setup
- Foundations & fundamentals modules
- Market geography deep-dive
- Contract & legal standards
- Onboarding checklist complete
Active Learning
- Role-play: buyer & seller consults
- Zillow / Follow Up Boss mastery
- Listing appointment practice
- Lender talk-track & pre-approval
- Shadow 3+ live transactions
Field Ready
- First lead assignment
- Supervised listing appointment
- Inspection process ownership
- Client expectation framework
- Red flag recognition
Mastery & Growth
- Monthly role-play sessions
- AI training hub access
- Market update fluency
- Post-close client engagement
- Long-term sphere development
The Qualities That Make Up the Ideal Simien Expert
New or seasoned, we look for great people first.
Select a quality to see what it looks like day to day.
Client-Need Centric
You start from what the client actually needs, not from the transaction you'd like to close. That means asking better questions and hearing the thing they haven't said out loud yet.
Buyer consults and listing appointments here are built around needs discovery. Pricing and timeline conversations follow from that, never the other way around.
Resilient
Deals fall apart. Inspections go badly. A seller changes their mind two days before closing. Resilient agents absorb that without passing the stress on to the client.
Calm under pressure is one of the things our clients name most often in reviews. It's a skill we train, not a personality type we hope for.
Coachable
Experience is an asset until it becomes an argument. Coachable agents can hold what they already know and still take input on the parts that aren't working.
Role-play sessions run monthly and everyone participates, including agents who have been selling for a decade. Feedback is direct and it goes both directions.
Disciplined
Follow-up on a schedule. Notes in the CRM. Contracts read closely. The unglamorous habits are what separate a good year from a good career.
Documentation discipline is what keeps a file defensible years after closing. Our systems make the habit easier to keep than to skip.
Follows Through
Doing what you said you'd do, by when you said you'd do it. It sounds like a low bar. In this industry it is a differentiator.
Response-time and follow-up expectations are set on day one, on company leads and your own sphere alike.
Able to Pivot
The market shifts, inventory changes, a buyer's budget moves. Agents who can adjust the plan without losing the client are the ones who stay busy through every cycle.
Monthly market-data sessions keep you fluent in what Clear Lake and the surrounding corridor are actually doing, so you can change course with evidence.
Self-Motivated
Nobody here is going to run your calendar. This is your business, and the ceiling is set by what you do with an unstructured week.
We provide the systems, the training, and access to the broker. The initiative is yours, which is exactly why the upside is too.
Problem Solver
Most of this job is the unexpected: a repair negotiation, a lender delay, a title issue nobody saw coming. Clients remember who solved it.
Jimmy and Joe are on site and reachable, so you work problems with a broker in real time instead of waiting on a support ticket.
We Groom Business Owners, Not Just Agents
We have some of the better perks in the industry, but that was never the pitch. The focus is developing your personal and professional skill in a way that makes you an irreplaceable partner to your clients.
Meet Our ExpertsMeet the Support Team Behind Every Agent
Jimmy Simien
Clear Lake native, leading the brokerage since 2009. On site, open door, and still in the deals.
Joe Haas
Runs role-play and appointment coaching alongside Jimmy. Reachable when a deal gets complicated.
LaVonne Daugherty
With Simien Properties since 2012, keeping the office and every agent running smoothly day to day.
Autumn Kalia
Handles the marketing and creative that keeps the Simien brand consistent, from listings to social.
Giang Tran
Keeps the internal systems and workflows running smoothly between agents, clients, and the office.
Jeanie Scott
Over 30 years in Clear Lake, guiding contracts through closing with the same care she brings to every client.
Brooke Haas
Ten-plus years in customer experience, keeping transactions on track from contract to closing.
Meet the Rest of the Team
See every agent and staff member at Simien Properties.
Meet the Whole TeamAsk Our Agents Instead of Us.
Three unscripted conversations about what changed when they came here.
The Questions Agents Actually Ask Us.
We walk through the full split, cap, and fee schedule in person and in writing, with nothing held back for a second meeting. Because we're independent, there's no franchise royalty riding on top of your production. What your split looks like depends on your volume and the support you want, so it's a conversation rather than a chart.
Both. Company leads come through our Zillow presence and are assigned via Follow Up Boss, with clear expectations on response time and follow-up. They're a supplement to your own sphere, not a substitute for it. The agents who do best here bring their own relationships and treat assigned leads as extra.
We time the move around your pipeline. License transfer, MLS and HAR updates, company email, Follow Up Boss, and your profile on our sites are handled as a checklist with sign-off, so nothing sits half-finished while you're trying to close. Pending deals stay with your current broker unless the parties agree otherwise, and we'll help you plan the announcement to your sphere.
Your listings and any signed buyer representation agreements stay with your current broker, not you. Texas rules don't let either one follow you automatically when you switch sponsorship. A client who wants to come with you has to ask that broker for a release and then sign fresh paperwork with us. Your sphere, your past clients and your referral sources are a different thing entirely, because those are relationships rather than contracts, and they come with you. We plan the move around whatever is already under contract, so nothing gets stranded mid-deal.
You'll still go through the standards portion: contract discipline, documentation, client expectation framework, and brand voice. That protects your license and ours. The skills work is calibrated to where you actually are. Experienced agents typically move through onboarding quickly and spend their time on the systems and the local market depth instead.
Completely. Conversations with agents at other brokerages stay between you and Jimmy. No announcement, no pressure, and no follow-up campaign if you decide to stay where you are.
Interested in working with us?
Send us a note and a Simien team member will reach out. Everything stays confidential, and there's no pressure either way.