Business View Magazine | February 2021

201 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2021 REVELAT ION REALTY GROUP BROKERED BY EXP REALTY our organization is over 3400 people.” Whereas most other brokerages are either franchises or independently owned and operated, EXP is one brokerage worldwide – in the U.S., Canada, Portugal, Mexico, South Africa, the U.K., Australia, India, and more. And they are expanding very quickly. The benefit of being one brokerage is that it affords the agents that work at EXP to build their career in more than just one way. Because EXP is publicly traded it awards stock to agents as they grow their real estate career and grow the organization. And they also participate in shared revenue, according to how many agents they can attract into the EXP fold. How the move happened… The original intent was to keep Revelation locally and to grow outside of that location. Chuck recalls, “In January 2018, I was approached by one of my friends who’s an agent out of Texas, and that’s how it started. But we didn’t have any intention of closing down the brokerage. I was going to go over to EXP just to build throughout the country.” Angela adds, “A year and a half into it, we began to realize what a spectacular opportunity EXP is. And then we didn’t sleep for six months. At first, they wanted us to move our brokerage over and we had no intention of doing that. But EXP offers healthcare to their agents and amazing programs so you become a better and better producer – you can’t pass that opportunity up. And although we were really successful in our brokerage, we were still a mom and pop shop.” EXP’s forward-thinking with regards to technology, their cloud-based platform, plus the myriad of other opportunities were hard to resist. The Fazios soon realized that they’d be better off joining forces with this industry disruptor, so in February 2020 they made the move and many of their agents had their best year ever. Chuck admits, “That has surprised us in the sense that it was definitely a leap of faith. Nobody in their right mind moves when they’re already having