The full split ladder, every fee, and honest first-year math, in writing. Pick a section; it opens right here.
1962
Locally owned since
#1
Lucas and Wood Counties, 2026 YTD*
382
Agents across nine offices
$1.24B
Closed volume in 2025
At a glance
We lead this market.
Market share is closed residential sales volume in the county. For you, that means a name sellers already recognize, and a larger agent network behind referrals.
Market share, 2026 year to date
Share of closed residential sales volume, Jan 1 to Sep 26, 2026*
Lucas County market share
The Danberry Co.27%
Key Realty14%
Serenity Realty13%
RE/MAX12%
Howard Hanna8%
LPG Realty4%
Keller Williams3%
Wood County market share
The Danberry Co.33%
Howard Hanna11%
Key Realty10%
RE/MAX9%
Serenity Realty8%
A.A. Green Realty4%
Keller Williams3%
*Based on information from the Northwest Ohio Real Estate Information Systems, Inc. Multiple Listing Service for the period January 1, 2026 through September 26, 2026. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
How many deals agents actually closed in 2025
A Danberry agentabout 12 sides
RealTrends Verified
The average agent at a large brokerage5 sides
RealTrends, 1,267 firms
September in this market.
Closed sales volume for Lucas and Wood Counties, September 1 to 30, 2026.
Source: MLS closed sales, Lucas & Wood Counties, OH, 9/1/26–9/30/26. Market share = share of closed sales volume, buyer and seller sides combined. Deemed reliable, not guaranteed.
01 · Support
A full support staff, already on the payroll.
Owners & Leaders
Third-generation owners. In the building every day.
Danberry has been locally owned since 1962. Richard Glowacki hung the first oval, and Lynn Fruth carried it forward from 1996. Kevin Warren, Maggie Fawcett, and Dan McQuillen are the third generation: they took the reins in 2020 and became sole owners in 2025. They didn’t buy the company from a distance. They came up inside it, and they still work in the building every day.
Kevin Warren
CEO · Owner
Licensed 20 years
Dan McQuillen
President · Owner
Licensed 22 years
Maggie Fawcett
President · Owner
Licensed 22 years
Office Managers
The strongest management bench in town. It isn’t close.
Most companies give you one broker, or a single manager stretched across every office. Danberry puts licensed, experienced managers in every location, many of them still among the company’s top producers. They sit with you on your first three closings, answer when a deal gets ugly, and lead from the floor, not from a title. That depth of leadership is rare in this market. We built it on purpose.
Darla Fry
Licensed 26 years
Pat Brady
Licensed 20 years
Tina Griffith
Licensed 9 years
Nancy Brown
Licensed 8 years
Tony Bassett
Licensed 25 years
Sara Erskine
Licensed 14 years
Ashley Preciado
Licensed 17 years
Char Simons
Licensed 17 years
Tiffany Holdgreve
Licensed 21 years
Joann Amos
Licensed 27 years
Manny Evola
Licensed 33 years
Jen Wiles
Licensed 24 years
Agent Services
Dana and Chris: Agent Services, in the building and on the road.
Dana Nehren
Director of Agent Services · dana@danberry.com · 419.351.2927
Chris Hall
VP of Agent Services
Your license and your database are their problem, not yours. Dana and Chris are Agent Services: the people who get you set up, keep you compliant, and make sure the company actually knows your name. Dana works out of a different office almost every week of the year, usually with breakfast she cooked herself. Chris is in the building on retention, recruiting, and the agent-facing work that keeps people here. Bring your CRM, your printer that won’t connect, or your mess. This is the desk that owns it.
Approves your license application in the state’s eLicense system and walks the paperwork with you so it doesn’t stall
Tracks your Ohio and Michigan renewals and files before anything can lapse: birthday deadlines included
Handles transfers, activations, and office moves with the board so you are not chasing forms alone
Builds your database with you: contact upload, drip campaigns, your website, and the first systems you will actually use
Day-one setup, end to end: email, Dotloop, MLS, cards, codes, and your training calendar signed off before you leave
Sends your agent opens to every Danberry agent on your behalf, so the company meets you the week you start
Writes the weekly Dispatch: classes, events, and a welcome for every new agent by name
Runs the Confidence Block quarterly lunch-and-learns, start to finish
Runs the parties and the calendar: Achievers, the golf outing, the gala, the annual meeting, and the stuff that makes a big company feel personal
Retention and recruiting, owned in-house: Chris works with ownership so the people who produce here have a reason to stay
The Danberry Design House
An in-house agency for all your marketing needs.
A real in-house agency: studio, print shop, and production calendar, with more than 5,000 projects done for our agents. Listing photos, video, drone, social graphics, postcards, and print at in-house rates. Templates or fully custom. Want to DIY? They’ll teach you.
Maria Penler
Director of Marketing
Monica Semenishin
Design & Print
Morgan Bunde
Design & Canva
Natalie Flahie
Social Media & Brand Coordinator
Jordyn Windnagle
Social Media & Content
Eileen Mikolajczyk
Sign Services & Social Media
Graphic design
Listing flyers and brochures
Property and agent marketing pieces
Business cards and agent bios
Signs, riders and poster boards
Ready-to-go templates, or fully custom design
Brainstorming sessions, any time
Photography & media
Listing photography, shot to sell the house
Video, drone and vertical social video
Matterport 3D tours and floor plans
Virtual staging
A professional headshot: every agent, every year
Print shop
Flyers, brochures and postcards, printed in the building
Mailed property postcards
“Just sold” postcards for your sphere
Quick turnaround: no outside vendor, no markup
For Sale signs: install, removal, storage and rider swaps, free
Request a sign by Monday noon; it’s in the ground Wednesday
Social media & your brand
“Just Listed” and “Just Sold” graphics
Captions, content and channel strategy
Your personal brand, built and kept consistent
Canva Pro and the Danberry template library
Want to DIY? They’ll teach you the tricks
Recruiting & Retention
Your first call before you join, and your advocate after.
Tyler Gill
Director of Recruitment · tylergill@danberry.com
Tyler is your first call before you join, and your advocate after. Before you commit, he walks you through every number on this page in person. Once you’re here, he stays in your corner and makes sure what this page describes is what you get.
Straight answers before you commit: splits, fees, and the first-year math, in writing
Sets up your office tours and your interviews with managers
Walks your questions to whoever owns them and brings the answer back
Runs your onboarding handoff: so your first day is set up before you arrive
Checks in after you land: your first weeks aren’t left to chance
Fixes what isn’t working: if something on this page isn’t your experience, tell him
Affiliated Services
The partners around your deal, already in place.
Tori Crowell
Director of Affiliated Services
Tori is who you call when the deal needs a partner, not a vendor list. She runs Danberry’s affiliated services so your clients get lending, title, home warranty, and contractor help from people we already trust. One introduction from her, and the relationship is managed for you through closing.
Capital Home Loans: our preferred lending partner for buyer financing, pre-approvals, and keeping your purchase on the clock
Ohio Real Title: title search, escrow, and closing coordination so the paperwork side of the deal stays clean
Cinch Home Warranty: warranty coverage you can offer buyers and sellers when a little protection helps the deal stick
Contractor services: vetted pros for repairs, punch lists, and pre-list work when the house needs a hand before it hits the market
Centralized Services
Paperwork to payday, handled.
These are the administrators behind every transaction: the people who open your file, keep the paperwork moving, coordinate the parties, and get your commission paid correctly and on time. While you are with clients, they are clearing the path to closing. That is not a shared call center. It is Danberry staff on the payroll, assigned to your offices, whose job is your deal.
Kristina Babcock
Director of Centralized Services
Liz Lauffer
Westgate
Melissa Lenz
Briarfield / Maumee
Tammy Welch
Closings
Laura Monachino
Perrysburg & Bowling Green
Kristy Pelchat
Oregon
Nichole Schade
Findlay
Alexis Nestor
Administrator
Sign Install
Your sign goes in, rain or snow. Then they take it down.
Sign Install
Tyler Ferraro & Randy Peace · free with your listing
You do not plant the post. Tyler and Randy install your For Sale sign, swap the riders, and pull it when the listing closes. Rain or snow, that is still their job. Request by Monday noon and it is in the ground Wednesday. Install, removal, storage, and rider swaps: free with your listing. You stay in the loop by text the whole way.
Text before install: you get a heads-up when the sign is going in
Photo when it is up: a picture of your installed sign, like the one here, so you know it is in the ground
Weather is not a pause button: rain or snow, the sign still goes up
Text before removal: notice when the sign is coming out
Confirmation when it is gone: a clear close-out that take-down is done
Rider swaps and storage between listings, ready for the next one
Want to meet any of these people before you decide? They’ll make time.
Every course below was written here and approved by the Ohio Division of Real Estate under our own provider number: including Core Law, Fair Housing and Ethics, the required topics most brokerages make you go find somewhere else. Most of them carry Michigan credit as well, because plenty of our agents work both sides of the line.
Working With Buyers
Writing Contracts
Working With Sellers
Earning the Business
Danberry Real Estate Marketing & Systems for Agent Success
Core Law
Ethics Elevated: the Ohio Canon of Ethics and the NAR Code of Ethics
Fair Housing Essentials: Understanding and Applying the Fair Housing Act
Proactive Risk Management in Residential Real Estate
Dual Agency Pros and Cons
Ohio Purchase Agreement Basics
Ohio Listing Agreements Basics
Inspection Timelines, Addendums & Offer Strategy
Multiple Offer Strategies
Deal or No Deal: The Top 8 Issues That Can Derail a Transaction
Writing Offers for Bank-Owned Homes
What Realtors Need to Know About Appraisals in 2026
Manufactured and Modular Homes: How to Tell the Difference
Trusts, LLCs, POAs and Probate: Who Owns the Property?
Title Basics
Title Tales
Mortgage Basics
VA Buyer Process Overview
Listing Investment and Evaluating Investment Properties
How to Win the Listing Every Time
Mastering the Open House: Marketing, Technology and Neighbor Engagement
Building Your Business Through Prospecting
Social Media Advertising for REALTORS®: Compliance, Strategy, Best Practices
Communication Across the Generations
The 80/20 Rule: Personal Productivity and Beyond
Resilience Under Pressure
Essential Safety Tips for Real Estate Agents
The REALTOR’s Guide to Minimizing Taxes
Danberry OnDeck
Danberry OnDeck: Contact / Lead Capture and Tracking
Dotloop
Ninja Selling: Day 1
Ninja Selling: Day 2
Ninja Selling: Day 3
Ninja Selling: Day 4
Internal Training
The calendar never goes quiet.
The CE catalog is the formal side. The week-to-week is where skills actually get built: free, in the building or on Zoom, and open to every agent.
Lunch & Learns: the quarterly Confidence Block: a speaker, a deck, lunch on us, and a personal invitation by text
Monthly office meetings: each office sits down for market updates, wins, and what’s coming so you stay plugged in even when you’re out showing
Ninja Skills Groups: small peer groups working the hot-and-warm list; Perrysburg runs three, Wooster meets Tuesdays at 10
Forms training: purchase agreements, listing agreements, and Dotloop, walked through line by line before you need them live
Zoom sessions: join remotely when you can’t be in the building, so an out-of-town closing never costs you a class
Friday classes: the six-week new-agent cycle runs all year; sit in again on any topic, any time
Tech one-on-ones: Danberry OnDeck, your website and your database, with Dana across the table
Role-play labs: practice the buyer consult and listing appointment with a manager before you do either one live
Ninja
And underneath all of it, one system. Referral-based. No scripts, no cold-call quota.
Ask any Danberry agent what we run on and you will get the same answer. Ninja Selling is not a seminar we sent a few people to. It is the language of the building, and it is the one training program on this site we charge you for. The 2026 Installation sticker price is $900 ($100 deposit, then the balance in full or $67/month for 12 months). Finish new-agent training and you earn a $450 credit, so your net out-of-pocket is $450.
The Ninja 9: nine daily habits. Gratitude, your numbers, two real-estate reviews, five handwritten cards, fifty touches a month, live conversations. That is the job.
You meet it in week one. Your first Friday class teaches the Ninja Buyer Process, your fourth mentor session walks the Ninja 9, and the monthly peer groups work the hot-and-warm list.
The Installation: December 2–4, 2026, three days at BGSU Levis Commons, taught by national instructor Chandra Hall. Ninja 90 is included: twelve weeks of Monday coaching afterward with a weekly scorecard, so it actually gets implemented.
Then Skills Groups. Perrysburg runs three, Wooster meets Tuesdays at 10, and the rest run their own. No extra cost, no minimum production. This is the honest answer to “does the training stick?” Most companies’ doesn’t, because nothing meets again after the class ends.
What about my Ohio post-license hours?
20 hours, due within 12 months. We track the deadline so you don’t miss it.
Our own program is 18 hours of CE-accredited classroom plus one-on-one mentorship.
You’re enrolled in the next Friday cycle after you pass: in a classroom within weeks.
Agent Services tracks and submits your credits. Ohio renews on your birthday.
Straight up: post-license hours must come from state-approved post-licensing coursework. Joann Amos will map exactly which courses satisfy it for your issue date.
Want the course catalog or a seat in the next class? Easy.
Day one with Dana. You leave set up, not handed a packet.
Dana Nehren
Director of Agent Services
Dana works your setup with you, line by line. Email, systems, board paperwork, cards, codes, training dates: signed off before you leave the building, so day two is real work, not a scavenger hunt.
@danberry.com email: live on your phone before you walk out
Dotloop and your website: accounts open, logged in, ready for a real file
MLS and board membership: started with you at the table, not left for later
Starter business cards: ordered the same day so you are not waiting on a vendor
Printer, door codes, and voicemail: building access and office basics done
Your tech training: on the calendar before you leave
Your headshot: booked with the Design House
Your post-license due date: written down and tracked by Agent Services
Group Session Training
Six Fridays. 9am to noon. Three hours of Ohio CE each, 18 hours in all. Built and taught by us.
01Working With BuyersBuyer agency, EBAs, consultations, searches, showings, lockboxes.
02Writing ContractsPurchase agreement, disclosures, and the escalation / inspection / appraisal-gap addenda.
03Working With SellersListing contract, listing appointment, CMAs, commissions, timelines.
04Earning the BusinessSphere building, Real Estate Reviews, social that works, using the Design House.
05Marketing and SystemsDanberry’s marketing tools, brand standards and CRM, plus OnDeck basics, so you leave with a solid marketing plan.
06Affiliates and GraduationMeet the partners who help your clients close, including Capital Home Loans, Cinch and Tori from Affiliated Services. Then a graduation lunch.
You go through it with a class, not on your own. Same room, same six Fridays, agents from every office in the company. By graduation you know people at Westgate, Perrysburg, Findlay, and Temperance, and they know you.
That is not a small thing in this business. Most of this job is done alone in a car, and at a lot of firms the person at the next desk is competing with you. The first thing that happens to you here is a room full of people who started the same week you did.
Those are the people you call. At 8pm on a Tuesday with an inspection response due, nobody opens the manual. They text somebody from their class.
You finish with a real graduation: same class, same room, and a cohort that already knows your name when the six weeks are over.
Graduation
Certificates in hand. Class of 2026.
You finish the six Fridays with a real graduation: same room, same cohort, and a certificate that says you did the work.
One-on-One Mentoring
One-on-one mentoring. Four sessions. You keep 100% of your commission.
Session 1: buyer consultation, run a search, show a home, and walk every document you will use with a buyer: so the first real appointment is not your first practice run
Session 2: Dotloop buyer template, your homework offer, and the common addenda, walked line by line until you can write it clean without guessing
Session 3: listing appointment, seller paperwork, negotiations, and net sheets. Homework: execute a real listing so the next one is not theoretical
Session 4: full Dotloop workflow, the Ninja 9, Real Estate Reviews, and affiliated services: the systems you will use every week after training ends
Transaction Partnerships
Your office manager. Literally: your first three transactions are done together.
CMAs with your manager: they help you price it right, build the presentation, and walk into the listing appointment prepared
Paperwork reviewed before it goes out: offers, listings, addenda, and disclosures checked so mistakes get caught in the office, not at the closing table
Hand-holding through the deal: inspections, appraisal gaps, renegotiations, and the ugly middle. Your manager stays in it with you on your first three transactions
Written into onboarding: this is a commitment in the workbook you sign, not a favor you hope someone has time for
Want to sit in on a class before you commit? That’s a real offer.
Every Danberry agent is on the same commission plan. Your level is based on your gross commission income (GCI) during your 12-month anniversary year, so the more you produce, the more you keep. As your GCI grows, your split moves up, and the Danberry services behind you stay fully in place at every level. We’re with you from your first deal to your best year.
60%
The starter plan
Where every new agent begins.
70%
Once you earn $25K
in gross commission, you move to this plan.
75%
Once you earn $50K
in gross commission, you move up again.
80%
Once you earn $100K
in gross commission over 12 months.
85%
Once you earn $150K
in gross commission over 12 months.
90%
Once you earn $200K
in gross commission over 12 months.
93%
Once you earn $300K
in gross commission over 12 months.
95%
Once you earn $450K
in gross commission over 12 months.
98%
Once you earn $600K+
Top of the ladder.
Your floor only goes up.
Your floor is the split you keep from that point on. Hit a higher rung, and the new split becomes your floor. A slower year never pulls you back down, and over a career, that floor can climb all the way to 98%.
Starting PointYou start on the 60% plan
Starting floor60%
Everyone begins here.
Year 1You earned $51K
New floor75%
You started the year at 60%. At $25K in gross commission you moved up to 70%, and at $50K you moved up to 75%. You finished the year at 75%, and that’s your new floor.
Year 2You earned $110K
New floor80%
You started the year at 75% because of last year’s production. At $100K you moved up to 80%, so you finished the year at 80%, and that’s your new floor.
Year 3Hard year. You earned $60K
Floor stays80%
You started the year at your 80% floor. $60K didn’t reach the next rung, but you don’t drop to 75%, and you never go back to 60%.
Year 5You earned $210K
New floor90%
You started the year at your 80% floor. At $150K you moved up to 85%, and at $200K you moved up to 90%. Now nine of every ten dollars stay with you.
Year 8You earned $620K
New floor98%
You started the year at your 90% floor. At $300K you moved up to 93%, at $450K to 95%, and at $600K to 98%. That’s the top of the ladder, and that floor stays yours.
From a hard Year 3 at 80% to 98% by Year 8: every rung you clear becomes permanent.
By the Numbers
What it costs elsewhere. What it costs here.
Every line below is a real charge at some brokerage. At the bottom: the four things we do charge you for.
Typically charged elsewhere
At Danberry
Charged whether you close anything or not
Technology fee
$50 to $150 / mo
$0
CRM
$50+ / mo
$0Danberry OnDeck
Agent website
~$50 / mo
$0yourname.danberry.com
IDX listing-search feed
~$70 / mo
$0
Professional email + Google Workspace
$6 to $20 / mo
$0@danberry.com
Marketing or ad-fund assessment
$95 to $162 / mo
$0
Annual brokerage fee
$500 to $900 / yr
$0
Charged on every transaction
Franchise fee or brand royalty
6 to 8% of every commission
$0we are independent
Compliance or file review
often bundled above
$0
Post-cap transaction fee
$165 to $335
$0we don’t run a cap model
Transaction software (Dotloop)
billed or bundled
$0
Charged to get started
Startup, onboarding or activation
$64 to $150
$0
A share of your first deals to a mentor
20 to 50% of the first 3
$0the big one
New agent training
varies
$0six classes, 18 hrs CE
Continuing education
$30 to $300 per cycle
$0taught in-house
Signs and marketing
The For Sale sign itself
$50 to $100 each
$0
Sign installation
$75 to $85 per install
$0we install it for you
Professional headshot
$150 to $400
$0every agent, every year
And here is everything we do charge you
Monthly fee
$300 to $2,000 / mo desk fee
$75covers every line above
Danberry services fee
varies
1% of grosson what you close
E&O insurance, per transaction
varies
$40stops at $800 a year
Transaction fee
varies
$395per transaction
Add up just the recurring ones
Add up only the fees billed whether you close or not (desk, tech, CRM, website, IDX, email, marketing assessment, annual fee) at the low and high end of those ranges. That is what a year costs somewhere else before you sell a single house, with franchise royalty still on top once you do. Here it is $75 a month ($900 for the year), and that one line covers everything in the list.
The agents crushing it here don’t leave for a recruiting pitch.
2025 wasn’t a lucky year for a few people. It was a full roster putting up numbers, and a Danberry agent closes about twice the sides of someone at a typical large brokerage.
2025 receipts
Danberry agents don’t dabble.
107
cleared $100K+ in GCI
That’s not a couple of rainmakers. That’s a roster.
35over $250K
10over $500K
23closed 50+ sides
157agents with 10+ sides
72with 25+ sides
2×the sides of a typical large-brokerage agent
How long they stay
~8 years
Average tenure. Bar length = headcount in each band (same scale).
62 agents · 10+ years
5+ years
Past the make-or-break years
117agents
10+ years
A decade in
62agents
15+ years
Fifteen years deep
45agents
20+ years
Two decades and still building
33agents
25+ years
A quarter century here
14agents
40+ years
Careers measured in generations
4agents
Headcount is flat on purpose. We are down one agent this year, and the same roster is closing 11.6% more volume. We raised the bar for entry rather than chasing a headcount.
Ask another company how many of their agents cleared six figures last year. Then ask how many of those people are still there. That is the question a recruiting pitch cannot answer.
Our average sale price ran about $274K against an MLS average near $219K. Higher-priced work, more sides per agent, and the people doing it stay put.
Clearwater Beach, FL · Achievers Trip 2026
Achievers Trip
Clearwater Beach. October 19–21.
$3M in volume between July 1 and June 30. That’s the whole rule.
Company-funded for individual agents who hit the mark. Team members are covered by their team leader.
Three days on the Gulf, not a webinar, not a plaque in the mail. You earn it, you go.
Top 50 monthly and Top 100 YTD rankings publish company-wide, so you always know where you stand.
The clock on next year’s list is already running.
Treasure Chest Gala · local giving, local impact
Treasure Chest
Founded 1994. Still the night everyone talks about.
Emergency support for local families facing hard medical seasons: through ProMedica and partners across Northwest Ohio, North Central Ohio, and Southeast Michigan.
More than $2.5 million raised over 30 years. In 2024 alone, about $400,000 went to a local pediatric behavioral-health initiative.
Help that shows up as rent, utilities, transportation, and funeral costs: the ordinary bills that collapse when a child gets sick.
31st Annual Auction + Gala: Thursday, November 12 at The Stranahan. Every dollar raised goes to community giving.
You’ll be asked to participate. Most people find it’s the part of the job they talk about at Thanksgiving.
Let’s Build Beds · local impact, agents building
Let’s Build Beds
Show up with tools. Leave finished beds.
A community build day for local kids who need a bed. Agents, lumber, and the people you work beside all year.
Hands-on morning outdoors: hammers, assembly, and a finished bed at the end of it.
Impact you can see before lunch. Not a check in the mail. Actual furniture for a child’s room.
The kind of company day people mention at Thanksgiving.
Wayne County Dog Shelter · $1,000 donation, May 2026
Community
A check for the shelter. A dog in the photo.
Local impact that fits on a giant check: agents showing up for the Wayne County Dog Shelter.
$1,000 donated under the Danberry name, with the people who wrote it standing behind it.
Not a logo on a flyer. Faces, a rescue dog, and a local shelter that got the money.
The same company that builds beds also shows up for animals in the counties we serve.
Danberry Golf Outing
The company golf outing
A day on the course with the people you work beside all year: owners included. Sponsors, foursomes, and the kind of easy competition that turns into next week’s deals and lifelong teammates.
Summer on the calendar. Bring your game, or just bring the cart chatter.
Trunk or Treat
Bring the family.
October 14 at Briarfield. Costumes, candy, decorated trunks, kids running the lot. This is the brokerage as a neighborhood, not a logo on a polo.
Partners, kids, and the agents who still get excited to show up.
ABM
Hardware. Stories. Face to face.
The Annual Business Meeting is where awards get handed out, the year gets told out loud, and every office shows up as one Danberry. Still a locally owned company that meets in person.
February · ~380 people · one room
06 · The Rest
More answers. Same candor, fewer words.
FAQ
Nineteen straight answers. Tap a question to open it.
01Employee or independent contractor?
Independent contractor. You get a 1099 and the full agreement to read before you sign anything. You run your own business, so you are in charge of your own success. No bad boss will hold you back from the life you want.
02Can I see the policy manual?
Yes. Every Danberry document is available any time you ask, and you sign them all before you join.
03Part-time OK?
We have no written policy against it, but we’ve declined candidates whose day job left no room to train. Tell us in the interview and we’ll talk through what could work for you.
04How many deals should I do?
No minimum, and definitely no maximum. If you’re not selling homes, you’re not earning. Our job is to give you every resource you need to succeed; the selling is up to you. In 2025, a Danberry agent averaged about 12 sides.
05Do you have teams?
Around 30, in all shapes and sizes. If you want to join one, we’ll walk you through the options.
06Do you have office meetings?
Most offices meet monthly; the day and time vary by office. There are also weekly trainings, Zooms and round tables. None of them are mandatory.
07Any specialty divisions?
Yes: Property Management, Relocation, Auction and the Design House.
08What do I get for finishing my mandatory training?
Finish your training and you get a $450 credit toward your Ninja Installation. Ninja is a sales program Danberry has taught once a year for 8 years running, and it helps you build the systems to be the best agent you can be.
09Why do the associations matter?
MLS is how you list, search and access lockboxes. REALTOR® membership binds you to an enforceable Code. That’s the difference between a licensee and a professional.
10Personalized For Sale signs?
Standard Danberry signs are provided, and we install them free.
11Rental property I own?
You can own and invest. There’s a Danberry Investment Real Estate Program. Only the PM Division manages property for others; that’s a license-protection rule.
12Can I talk to agents who just joined?
Yes. We’re happy to make the intro.
13How will you measure if I’m successful?
We will always be checking in on you, but early on, the most important thing is simply to show up.
14Can I start a team?
Yes, with CEO and office-manager approval. There are minimum requirements to start one.
15Which CRM?
Danberry OnDeck, our own custom CRM. It is built into most of what you will do as a Danberry agent, and you will be trained on its tools.
16Company email and a website?
Both are included. Danberry uses Google Workspace, so you get an @danberry.com address, plus yourname.danberry.com with IDX.
17What is Danberry’s commission split?
Everyone starts on the 60% plan. As your gross commission grows, you climb the ladder (in a first year, 70% at $25K and 75% at $50K), and every rung you clear becomes your new floor. A slower year never pulls you back down, and over a career your split can reach 98%.
18What fees does Danberry charge?
A $75 monthly fee that covers technology, CRM, website, IDX, email and the rest of the list in Compensation. On what you close: a 1% Danberry services fee, a $395 transaction fee, and E&O insurance at $40 per transaction, capped at $800 a year. Board, MLS and association dues are billed by the associations, not by Danberry.
19Is there a franchise fee or royalty?
No. Danberry is independent and has been locally owned since 1962, so no franchise fee or brand royalty comes out of your commissions.
Straight talk
Where we’re not the right fit.
We say no more often than yes, and we would rather tell you up front. Here is when to keep looking.
1
If you want the richest split on day one.
Everyone starts on the 60% plan. Your floor only moves up from there, and over a career it can reach 98%. If the day-one split is the only number you compare, we are not your firm. Compare the fees too: monthly fees elsewhere commonly run $300 to $2,000. Ours is $75.
2
If you want to learn this alone.
Your office manager works your first three transactions with you. You train with a class for six Fridays and get four one-on-one mentor sessions. Most of what works here is people.
3
If your schedule has no room to train.
We have no written policy against part-time, but we’ve declined candidates whose day job left no room to train. The six Fridays run 9am to noon. Tell us in the interview.
4
If you want scripts and cold calls.
We run on Ninja Selling: referral-based and built on your own sphere. No scripts, no cold-call quota.
None of that sounds like you? Then we should talk.
Danberry production, commission, and listing figures are internal company records as of August 7, 2026 and may differ slightly from final accounting. Market-share figures are as of September 26, 2026. Commission plan terms are drawn from the current New Commission Plan Breakdown and signed agent commission plan documents. Fee, policy, training, and mentorship details are drawn from the Operating Policy and Procedures Manual (eff. 2025), the 2026 Onboarding Workbook, the New Agent Training curricula and the Independent Contractor Agreement. Market share is YTD dollar share by brand. Competitor fee ranges are what brokerages commonly charge nationally and in this market; desk, franchise, and transaction fees are set by each individual office owner and vary, so ask any firm you interview for their actual numbers in writing. Board, MLS and association dues and lockbox access are charged by the associations, not by any brokerage, and no brokerage can waive them. Third-party facts are from RealTrends and the Ohio Division of Real Estate. Income illustrations are illustrative only and are not a guarantee of earnings.
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