Bring Your Clients. Keep Them.
A boutique Fort Lauderdale brokerage growing its broker field. A commission split that rises with what you produce, the listing and closing machinery carried by the firm, and contacts that stay private to whoever owns them. Every inquiry is confidential.
- Years brokering yachts
- 26
- Listings you can work
- 6,937
What the firm carries
The Three Questions, Answered First
A broker deciding whether to move wants the split, what the firm pays for, and whether their list stays theirs. Everything else is detail.
A split that rises as you produce
Tiered against what you bring in over the calendar year, so your share moves as the year builds rather than sitting flat whatever you do. It resets each January, and the tiers are written into the agreement. You see them before you sign anything.
An independent contractor, not an employee
You work on a 1099: nothing withheld, your own return, and the independence that goes with it. You hold an active Florida license and a current bond, and the standard expected is above the IYBA's rather than level with it.
Your clients stay yours
You arrive with a list and you leave with it. Contacts are private to the broker who owns them, not pooled, not visible to the desk beside you, and not exportable by anyone else in the firm.
The listing machinery is carried
Written specifications, syndication to YachtBroker.org, Yachtr.com, YachtWorld and Boat Trader, co-brokerage into the wider network, and the aim of putting the right listing on display at the Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach shows, as Aspire has done before. On a central agency you fund the photography and video and are reimbursed when she sells, so that money follows a result rather than disappearing into a listing that never moves.
Transactions handled properly
Escrow, documentation, closing coordination and the paperwork that eats a broker's week. Done in house so your time goes on clients and boats.
Specialize where you are strong
Sportfish, center consoles, motor yachts, sail. Work the segment you actually know rather than whatever walks in. A boutique firm can let you do that; a volume shop cannot.
On your contacts
Nobody Else Sees Your List
Your buyers, sellers and captains are private to you and to the administrator, and to nobody else in the firm. That is not a policy in a handbook. It is built into the system, so the broker at the next desk cannot see your people whether or not they are curious.
You can import your list when you arrive. Brokers cannot export the firm’s contacts, which is the same rule protecting you as protects everyone else.
Inquiries on outside listings come to the office and are assigned. Inquiries on your own boats are yours.
Who suits this
What We Are Looking For
- Proven experience in the industry, and a client network you built yourself
- A reputation you are careful with, because the firm's turns on it
- Relationships treated as longer than any single transaction
- Sea time: captains, engineers and crew make unusually good brokers
- Comfortable being the only professional in the room who says the boat is wrong
Full-time and commission-based. If you are weighing it up rather than ready to move, a conversation costs nothing and stays between us.
Two ways in
An established broker with a book arrives and gets on with it. Somebody newer to brokerage (a captain, an engineer, crew, or a good salesperson who knows boats) comes in and trains, with John personally involved in every transaction until they do not need him to be. We are trying to grow the field, not just poach from it.
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