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10 Minutes Could’ve Cost Them the House. Here’s How We Fought (and Won) for Their First Home

Oct 7
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10 Minutes Could’ve Cost Them the House. Here’s How We Fought (and Won) for Their First Home — original article image by Jenn Jenkins

There are moments in this business when the adrenaline hits differently.

Then finally, they said the words every agent loves to hear: “We’re ready.”


By Jenn Jenkins | Co-Founder, Brokers Hub Realty


There are moments in this business when the adrenaline hits differently.


It was a quiet weekday afternoon, and I got the text, from my first-time homebuyers who had been circling a new build community for weeks. We’d toured the models. Run numbers. Dreamed. Hesitated.


Then finally, they said the words every agent loves to hear: “We’re ready.”


What Jenn’s story shows

  • “We just saw a lot reservation come through for that same home.”

  • I screenshotted timestamps.

  • Let me be clear, this wasn’t about ego.


Sometimes I wonder if I need to be “on” all the time, if that kind of vigilance is sustainable, or even necessary.

For this couple, their homeownership story started with a ten-minute gap—and ended with a win, a welcome mat, and a whole lot of joy.


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