Full-service real estate · Six US metros
Austin headquarters, six United States metros, and one licensed agent who stays on your file from the first showing to final funding. Buy, sell, rent, lease or invest with a team that puts the fee, the scope and the closing calendar in writing before you sign anything.
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TheKabza.com is a full-service residential real estate agency headquartered in Austin, Texas, working with buyers, sellers, renters, landlords and investors across six United States metros: Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Phoenix and Scottsdale, Miami and Nashville. Kabza means possession, and that is what TheKabza.com is organized around — clean title, verified diligence, and a closing date that holds. In practice that means the title commitment is ordered in the opening days of a contract rather than the closing week, that every Schedule B exception is read with you and marked accept, cure or walk, and that a dated closing calendar naming who owns each deadline reaches you within one business day of going under contract. The agent who takes your first call is the one at your inspection and your final walkthrough. There is more about TheKabza.com and the standards we operate under, including how we are licensed and how we are paid.
A licensed Texas brokerage carrying errors and omissions cover, with every engagement on a written agreement that states the fee, the term and how to cancel.
We follow the federal Fair Housing Act and every broader state or local rule in the markets we serve, on showings, screening and advertising alike.
Listings syndicate to the local MLS and its IDX partners, so your home reaches the portals buyers actually search.
Why TheKabza.com
Five operating standards, written into the agreement rather than promised on a phone call.
Kabza means possession
Everything here is engineered backward from the moment keys change hands rather than forward from a listing photo, which is why title, survey and HOA documents get read before anyone talks about paint colors. You can meet the team behind the name.
The named-agent rule
The licensed agent who takes your first call attends your inspection, your appraisal and your final walkthrough. There is no mid-transaction handoff to a coordinator you have never spoken to, and reassigning a file requires your written consent first.
Clear-title diligence
The title commitment is ordered in the opening days of contract, not closing week. You receive a written memo marking every Schedule B exception accept, cure or walk, each with a responsible party and a date it is due back.
Not a referral desk
Six metros, resident agents in each. Whoever tours a property with you is the person who negotiates it, and who already knows which block floods, which association forbids rentals, and which MUD district quietly adds to the tax bill.
Fees in dollars, not percentages
Our fee is a specific written number, commissions are negotiable, and every compensation arrangement between brokers is disclosed to you. No administrative fee, no transaction fee, and no undisclosed referral money from any vendor we recommend.
Fair housing compliance is built into every showing and every advertisement we run. We apply identical written screening criteria to every rental applicant, keep advertising language free of preference or limitation, and decline to answer questions that ask us to sort a neighborhood by the demographics of the people living in it. The standard is set by the Fair Housing Act, US Department of Justice, and we hold to it even when a client would rather we did not. What we will give you instead is verifiable: school ratings, tax rates, commute times, flood maps and published crime statistics you can check yourself.
What we do
Buying, selling, leasing, management and investment advisory, each on its own written agreement.
Everything below is delivered by our own licensed staff rather than handed to a referral partner, and each engagement states the fee, the term, the services included and how to cancel before you sign it.
Dedicated buyer's agent representation
Your budget conversation covers what buyers usually discover late: property tax rates and exemption timing, HOA dues and special assessments, and insurance quoted before the option period closes. Then a deliberately narrow search, tours with your own agent rather than a list of links, and offers priced from the Comp File. Read the neutral buying a home guidance on USA.gov first, then buy a home with a dedicated buyer's agent who shows up to the inspection in person.
Listing agent representation
Most homes that sit were mispriced or under-prepared in the first ten days, and the market remembers. We open with a valuation packet you can audit — comparable addresses, adjustments, exclusions and the reasons for each — then a pre-listing walkthrough that separates what returns money from what does not. Before you assume the tax outcome on your proceeds, read IRS Topic 701, sale of your home. Most sellers begin here: sell my house and get a written home valuation.
Lease review on one side, screened applicants on the other
A lease is a multi-year financial commitment that most people sign after a fifteen-minute tour. Renters get the clauses read with them: escalations, deposit rules, HOA restrictions, renewal terms and what actually happens at move-out. Owners get identical written screening criteria applied to every applicant and a market rent built from currently leased comparables in the same submarket rather than last season's asking prices.
Owner statements you can audit
Property management is bookkeeping and maintenance discipline wearing a real estate badge. Monthly statements itemize every dollar with the scanned invoice attached, maintenance runs against an approval threshold you set in writing, and periodic interior inspections come back with dated photographs of an asset you may never visit. See our residential property management services, including the thirty-day exit clause we put in every management agreement.
Underwriting first, touring second
Every deal is underwritten before it is toured: rent comps from actually signed leases, realistic vacancy and turn costs, taxes at the reassessed post-sale value, insurance quoted rather than assumed, capital reserves and an exit stated out loud. We would rather lose a commission than hand you a pro forma that only works if nothing goes wrong. Exchange questions run through your CPA and a qualified intermediary alongside IRS guidance on like-kind (1031) exchanges, and you can start with our real estate investment advisory.
The process
Five stages, each one ending in a document you keep.
Sixty minutes on your goals, timeline, financing position and the trade-offs you are genuinely willing to make. You leave with a written scope: what we will do, who will do it, the fee in dollars and how to cancel. book a consultation in Austin, or by video in any of the six metros. Nothing starts on a handshake.
Buyers get an offer range for a specific property. Sellers get a home valuation packet listing the comparable addresses, close dates and terms, the adjustments made for lot, condition, view and finish, and the properties we excluded with the reason for each. You can drive the street and check it, which is the point.
Buyers tour with their own agent and a written question list per property, so tours end in notes rather than impressions. Sellers get preparation, professional photography, a floor plan and full MLS syndication, with title, survey and HOA resale documents ordered early so a buyer's lender is not the first to find a problem in them.
Offers are compared on net proceeds, financing strength and contingency risk rather than headline price, on a one-page net sheet. Repair negotiation runs on contractor bids. Your agent attends the inspection, reads the report with the inspector, and writes a response supported by what the report actually says.
The title commitment is reviewed exception by exception, and appraisal, financing and insurance deadlines sit on a shared calendar with a named owner and a timestamp. For the wider rate and affordability picture, Fannie Mae research and insights and Freddie Mac housing research are worth an hour of any buyer's time. TheKabza.com stays on the file until funding, not until the contract is signed.
Inventory
A sample of the property types our agents work with every week.
Travis Heights, Austin, TX
Colleyville, Dallas–Fort Worth, TX
Downtown, Austin, TX
Brickell, Miami, FL
The Nations, Nashville, TN
Queen Creek, Phoenix–Scottsdale, AZ
These cards are illustrative of the inventory the team handles rather than live availability: single-family homes in the central and suburban corridors, condominiums and townhomes in the downtown and coastal towers, and income and rental property that is underwritten before it is toured. Live listings are displayed through licensed MLS and IDX feeds — Unlock MLS, NTREIS, HAR, ARMLS, MIAMI REALTORS and RealTracs — with the required attribution and a visible last-refreshed timestamp. Listing data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed and should be independently verified.
Coverage
Six metros, resident agents in each, and no referral hand-off at the county line.
Client results
First-time buyers, sellers and relocations, landlords and investors.
We were two days from releasing our option period when our agent flagged a utility easement running under the back corner where we wanted a garage. She had the survey and a written HOA letter before a dollar of earnest money moved. That easement would have cost us the entire project.
Every house we liked, he pulled the FEMA zone and the claim history before we toured it, and two came off the list that afternoon. The one we bought had an elevation certificate on file, and our flood quote came back during the option period instead of the week of closing.
The valuation packet listed eleven comparable addresses and the three they refused to use, with the reason beside each one. Another agent had quoted us a number forty thousand higher. We listed at theirs, took an offer in nine days, and the appraisal came in without a gap.
They spent twelve days on paint, landscaping and photography before we went live, and made us clear a survey discrepancy first. Two offers arrived over the weekend and we compared them on a net sheet rather than headline price. The second-highest offer put more money in our account.
The monthly statement has the scanned invoice attached to every line, so I stopped guessing what a six-hundred-dollar plumbing call actually covered. Renewals get worked three months ahead of expiry. Two of my four residents have now renewed twice, and that is where the return really comes from.
They talked me out of the first duplex I wanted. The model showed taxes at the reassessed value after sale rather than the seller's protected number, and the cash-on-cash went negative in year one. The property we did buy has run slightly ahead of the model for two years.
Sample testimonials. These are illustrative of the work described elsewhere on this page and are not real client reviews — replace them with genuine, written-permission testimonials before launch. Individual results vary and are never a guarantee of price, timeline or outcome.
Fees
Published starting points, so you know the number before the first meeting rather than after it.
Listing agent representation with core marketing
1.5% listing commission
Discuss this planFor a well-kept home in a liquid price band where the market does much of the work. You get a licensed listing agent on the file, the written valuation packet, professional photography and full syndication, with title and payoff ordered in the first week. Negotiation is handled by your named agent, not a desk.
Full preparation, staging direction and campaign photography
2.5% listing commission
Discuss this planOur most complete listing plan, for homes where preparation genuinely changes the number. Everything in Essential, plus a pre-listing inspection, a priced Repair Ledger you can negotiate from, staging direction with a vendor schedule we manage, and a full campaign shoot. Preparation almost always costs less than the first price reduction.
Property management and investment advisory for multiple doors
8% of monthly rent collected
Discuss this planFor owners with one door or twenty. Leasing, rent collection, maintenance against your written approval threshold, trust accounting reconciled monthly, and periodic interior inspections with dated photographs, plus an annual hold-versus-sell review on every asset. You can see what owner reporting looks like before you commit to anything.
Commissions and fees are fully negotiable and are not set by law, by any multiple listing service or by any trade association. The figures above are published starting points for the scopes described; your written agreement governs. Buyer representation is quoted separately and any compensation offered by a seller or listing broker is disclosed to you in writing before you sign.
Answers
The eight we are asked most, answered the way we would answer them on a call.
TheKabza.com is a full-service residential real estate agency headquartered in Austin, Texas, working across six metros: Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Phoenix and Scottsdale, Miami and Nashville. We represent buyers, sellers, renters, landlords and investors, and we run property management and investment advisory in house. We take one side of the table at a time and do not practice dual agency by default.
Commission is negotiable and is not set by law or by any association. Our published plans start at 1.5% for listing representation and 8% of collected rent for management, but the number that matters is the one written into your agreement in dollars before anything is listed or shown. Buyer-side compensation arrangements are disclosed in writing, and we add no administrative or transaction fees.
A listing agent is contractually working for the seller. A buyer's agent works for you, which matters most during inspection negotiation, appraisal gaps and title review. Written buyer representation agreements are now standard practice across the industry, and we read ours with you line by line, including the fee, the term and how to end it, before you tour anything.
It depends on price band, condition and local inventory, so we give you a written estimate after the valuation walkthrough rather than quoting a market average that may not describe your street. We usually spend seven to fourteen days on preparation, photography and pricing before going live, because presentation costs less than a price reduction. On proceeds, start with IRS Topic 701, sale of your home.
An automated estimate is a starting range, not an appraisal. It cannot see your renovation, your lot orientation, your HOA rules or the deferred maintenance in the garage. We treat the automated range as a first pass, then a licensed agent walks the property and reconciles it against recent comparable closings, with every adjustment written down so you can check the argument yourself.
Tenant screening, lease preparation, rent collection, maintenance coordination against an approval threshold you set, statutory notices, move-in and move-out condition reports, and monthly owner statements with scanned invoices and a year-end tax package. Our published rate is 8% of collected rent plus a separate leasing fee, both stated in the management agreement, which you can exit on thirty days' notice.
Yes, and most of our investment clients start with a single rental. We underwrite before touring: rent comparables from signed leases, vacancy, turn cost, reserves, insurance quoted rather than assumed, and taxes at the post-sale reassessed value. We are not tax or legal advisors, so exchange timelines run with your CPA and a qualified intermediary alongside IRS guidance on like-kind (1031) exchanges.
We comply with the federal Fair Housing Act and applicable state and local law, apply identical written screening criteria to every rental applicant, and will not characterise a neighborhood by the demographics of the people living in it. We will give you school ratings, tax rates, commute times, flood maps and published crime data instead. Getting started is one consultation and a written scope.
Still deciding? The full TheKabza.com FAQ answers 18 more questions about buying, selling, renting and investing.
Start with a conversation, not a contract. Talk to TheKabza.com before you commit to anything: the first meeting produces a written scope with the fee in dollars, and the home valuation packet is free, takes about three business days and requires no listing agreement.
