Every week, someone in a California office learns that a client is leaving for Nevada before any Las Vegas agent does. Their listing agent hears it at the listing appointment. Their CPA hears it in a tax-planning call. Their estate attorney hears it when the trust needs a new situs. This page is for the person who hears it first, and it answers the three questions that decide whether the referral happens: what your client gets, what you get, and what you keep.
A Nevada buyer’s broker who is also a practicing California attorney, licensed as a broker in both states. In practice that means the Nevada purchase agreement, the counteroffers, the HOA resale package under NRS 116.4109, the seller’s real property disclosure under NRS 113.130, and the SID/LID and solar paperwork are read by a lawyer before your client signs any of them. It also means the California side of the move, the residency change, the Franchise Tax Board’s closest-connections test, the Proposition 19 question, is understood by the person negotiating the Nevada deal, rather than discovered after closing. The moving-to-Nevada checklist is the orientation your client receives on day one.
The consultation is free and in writing. Your client sends the basics through any form on this site and receives a written reply within one business day: what their budget buys in Summerlin, Henderson, the southwest or a Strip high-rise, the order to do things in, and what representation costs. There is no obligation until a buyer-broker agreement is signed.
This is the question California agents ask first, because I also hold a California broker licence (DRE 01496817), and it deserves a plain answer. On a referred client, the California side stays with you. Vegas VIP Me will not list, sell, or represent a referred client on any California property, and I will not solicit that business. The referral agreement says so in writing. My California licence is used for clients who come to me directly with both halves of a move; it is not used to compete with the agent who sent me the Nevada half.
If your client asks me a California question, I answer it and send them back to you with the answer. If a legal issue arises in California, that is a separate engagement with the Law Office of Jimmy Nguyen APC under its own engagement letter, disclosed to you, and it never touches your commission.
Nevada law lets a Nevada broker pay a referral fee to a broker licensed in another state, and prohibits paying one to anyone who is not a licensed broker (NRS 645.280). California mirrors the rule: a salesperson may accept compensation only through the broker they are licensed under (Business and Professions Code §10137). So the mechanics are always broker to broker: Vegas VIP Me LLC pays your broker, and your broker pays you under your own commission arrangement. The referred client is told in writing that a referral fee is being paid, and to whom. Nothing about the fee is hidden from anyone at the table.
CPAs, attorneys, financial advisors, and relocation coordinators cannot be paid a real estate referral fee in Nevada, and I do not offer one. What I can offer your client is a written, attorney-read consultation at no charge, a coordinated timeline for the residency change and the purchase, and a broker who will pick up the phone when you have a question about the Nevada side of your client’s file. Send the client, or send me the question first.
No. The percentage is the same on every referred purchase. The price floor describes who I serve well, not a fee tier.
If a signed referral agreement is in place before the client first contacts Vegas VIP Me, the fee is owed. If the client reached me first, I will tell you so honestly, and no fee is owed. The agreement carries the date for exactly this reason.
Yes, for a Nevada property. The same broker-to-broker agreement and the same percentage apply to the listing-side commission. Vegas VIP Me does not market for seller listings, but it accepts referred ones.
Twelve months from signature, covering any purchase the referred client closes with Vegas VIP Me in that window. Renewable by email if the client’s move slips.
When a Nevada client of mine needs a California agent in your area and I do not already have a relationship there, yes, under the same kind of written agreement. I do not promise volume; I promise the same terms in both directions.
Your details and what you know about the move. Leave the client’s contact information out until the agreement is signed.
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