6 REALTORS IN SEARCH OF A BROKER

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🖋️ 6 Realtors in Search of a Broker

A screenplay treatment for House.Roc Entertainment & Star 86 Studios,

Corporate Absurdist Drama / Dark Workplace Comedy

Written by: Filipa Rodrigues Abreu

🌟 Editor's Note

Please be advised this content is for mature audiences. Regina Young and “Young Realty” are figments of the authors imagination. This is a Human-AI Hybrid Creation. Stay Creative :)

CHARACTERS:

• REGINA YOUNG – Late 30s. Smart, restless, once idealistic. The de facto voice of reason.

• FRANKY “ESCROW” JAMESON – 50s. Old-school, weary, loyal to rules that no longer work.

• KELLY STAGED – 20s-30s. Social-media professional; lives by hashtags and hustle.

• TONY KEYS – 40s. Charmer turned cynic; his humor covers real bitterness.

• LOLA LEASE – 30s. Gentle, anxious, clings to optimism as survival.

• DANNY DOORKNOCK – 20s. Newer agent, eager, still believes in “the dream.”

• TRAINER – Corporate employee, awkward, cheerful by training, terrified by reality.

This Story is brought to you by: House.Roc Real Estate Entertainment - Where Home is You and The Stories You Tell.

(A classroom-style conference room in a brokerage training center. Fluorescent lights hum. A projector flickers a PowerPoint titled “COMPLIANCE & ETHICS: NEW TEAM ORIENTATION.” A NEW TRAINER stands with a clipboard.
The door opens mid-sentence; six Realtors walk in, damp from rain, eyes hollow but polite. (They carry clipboards, expired name tags, a whiff of open house cookies.)The Realtors are Confused):

TRAINER
Good morning, everyone. Today’s session will review updates to Standard of Practice 12-10, regarding the use of social media in advertising real property—This session is for agents affiliated with HouseRoc Realty Group only.
If you’re from another office, you’ll need to—

REGINA
We know.

TRAINER
What office are you with?

REGINA
(steps forward)
I’m Not sure. We were, once. At one point, we were. Before the merger. Before the rebrand, I mean. Before she left. We were affiliated. Once. You know, before the split. Before the market correction.

TRAINER
Who left?

REGINA
The Broker. Our Broker. The one who wrote us.

(The Trainer blinks, lost.)

TRAINER
Wrote you? You mean recruited you?

FRANK ESCROW
No—wrote. We were drafted. Licensed into Being.

KELLY STAGE
He means the broker created the Systems. The Story. The Culture.

TRAINER
Alright… and you’re here for New Agent Orientation or CE Credits?

TONY KEYS
Neither. We’re here for closure. For Closings, I mean.

TRAINER
You’re… licensed, right?

REGINA
I am Licensed in 47 states and hold a CIPS Designation. Temporarily inactive in all.

FRANK ESCROW
Mine expired the minute she stopped answering her phone.

TONY KEYS
We’re pending. Eternally pending.

KELLY STAGE
We tried to join another firm. They said the transfer needs her release.

TRAINER
Who’s release?

REGINA
A Broker must release the agents she binds. It’s in the fine print.

TRAINER

Alright. And you’re looking for—

REGINA
Our Broker.

TRAINER
Who’s your Broker?

(They all exchange glances, unsure, shrugging)

FRANK ESCROW
She never signed her last name. Just initials on the contract.
Elegant. Illegible.

TONY KEYS
She promised us percentages. We believed her.

(The Trainer stares. The Realtors begin talking over one another, their voices rising.)

FRANK ESCROW
Our escrows are frozen—

KELLY STAGE
Our listings orphaned—

TONY KEYS
Our clients calling, begging for direction—

LOLA LEASE
We can’t tell them the truth, that leadership’s gone missing—

DANNY DOORKNOCK
That we don’t even know who we work for anymore—

(Regina slams the remote down. The projector dies. Silence.)

REGINA
We came here to find the Broker. Because someone has to finish the story they started.

(Lights buzz. The Trainer edges toward the door.)

TRAINER
I—I’ll get the manager.

REGINA
There isn’t one.

(Beat.)

TRAINER
Then who’s in charge?

REGINA
That’s exactly what we’re trying to find out…

House.Roc is Is for Realtors. The ones who also need help finding their way home.

REGINA

Everyone is just pretending. You post motivational quotes. You host “team meetings” that feel like funerals. A real Broker supervises. A Broker provides oversight, education, risk management— You ever watch a rookie cry in the parking lot after losing their first deal? That’s when a real Broker shows up. Not with forms — with presence. Or else: the wolves move in. Unlicensed consultants. Gurus. Coaches who never sold a thing.
They sell you back to yourself in webinars.
They tell you to visualize success while you’re calculating gas mileage.
You realize we don’t exist without her name on the wall.
We can’t write contracts, can’t close deals, can’t even introduce ourselves.
They sell you the script, then punish you for improvising.
We want to believe someone’s still steering the ship. Realtors don’t work together.
We network — which is just loneliness in a suit.
The reality: There is no ship. There’s only a database with our names on it.

TONY KEYS
Let’s be honest — the only thing keeping Realtors civil is supervision.
Take away the Broker, and the masks slip. We start calling each other “team” while measuring who’s next to fail.

KELLY STAGE
You’re not wrong. Look at us. All teeth, no loyalty.
We smile through inspections, shake hands, send emojis — and the minute someone drops a lead, we swarm.

TONY KEYS
That’s not disloyalty. That’s survival.

FRANK ESCROW
That’s cannibalism.

REGINA
It’s capitalism. Same difference.

FRANK ESCROW
You want to know what happens without leadership? The dogs eat themselves.
First the rookies, then the veterans, until the whole kennel’s nothing but teeth and ego.

DANNY DOORKNOCK
(to no one)
I just wanted to help people find a home.

(The others go quiet — for a heartbeat. Then the noise returns, meaner now.)

FRANK ESCROW
Save it, kid. You’re in sales. Nobody buys sincerity.

REGINA
Alright. Let’s review. We’ve got listings that can’t be released, offers that can’t be submitted, closings on hold, and clients calling every hour asking if we’ve been “acquired” by some bigger fish. We’ve got no Broker, no signature, no supervision, and no damn clue who’s actually in charge.
So, tell me — are we all just going to sit here pretending this is normal?

FRANK ESCROW
Normal? In real estate? Let’s at least show some diligence. We can’t lose composure; it’s all we’ve got left.

REGINA
Composure doesn’t close. People can smell when leadership’s gone. It’s like mold — invisible till it ruins everything.

TRAINER
I don’t understand — how does a Broker just vanish?
There has to be paperwork? Oversight? Compliance? Someone must know something.

FRANK ESCROW
You start asking too many questions, and suddenly you’re “not a team player.”

DANNY DOORKNOCK
Then what the hell are we doing here?!
If she’s gone, if the Broker’s just another name on paper,
why are we still waiting like idiots for someone to tell us what to do?

(A stunned silence. Then Tony leans forward.)

TONY KEYS
Because deep down, kid, we don’t want freedom.
We want supervision. We want someone to sign off on our lives so we don’t have to own the risk. We want to be told “good job” before the check bounces.

REGINA

You know what I’m tired of?
Being told to “stay positive.”
Every office meeting, every email blast — “mindset this, gratitude that.”
Meanwhile, half the agents are one late commission away from selling plasma.
I don’t want a mindset. I want a leader who doesn’t hide behind Canvas graphics.
(beat)

We’re six grown adults—licensed, fingerprinted, indoctrinated—
sitting in a classroom like schoolkids waiting for a hall pass because one person didn’t show up. We are an army without a general.
Only this army pays to serve.

(The Trainer doesn’t interrupt. Regina keeps going—her voice clipped, fast, brutal.)

REGINA
You think real estate is about property. But It’s about obedience.
We hand over half our commissions for the privilege of using a logo.
We pay desk fees for desks that don’t exist, technology fees for broken CRM’s,
and “training fees” for motivational speeches about mindset and manifesting listings.
Every quarter they sell us a new dream, charge extra for the seminar, and call it “investing in ourselves.”
Meanwhile, our splits shrink, our leads vanish, and we clap like trained seals for inflated numbers that belong to corporate.

We know they only benefit a very small percentage of agents. The big teams who double dip, use all the profit margins for their own advantage, take your ideas and call you names. They don’t pick up the phone, don’t respond to emails, turn their backs when you truly need them and when you ask for an explanation…

(Regina gestures a throat slit)

FRANK ESCROW
Everybody’s tired. Commissions are getting smaller, clients are getting meaner, and every deal feels like a hostage negotiation. And try living off sixty-forty splits when the office takes forty for “marketing materials” that never show up.

REGINA
And now she’s building something else — without us. That’s what leaders do in this business. They preach freedom, but it’s just franchised abandonment.
Compliance. Due diligence. Rebranding.
That’s the holy trinity.
Compliance keeps us scared,
due diligence keeps us slow,
and rebranding keeps us distracted.
They don’t have to fire us—just rebrand until we forget who we were working for.

(She stops, steadying herself on the projector table.)

REGINA
You want to see how absurd it is?
If a buyer walked in right now—cash in hand, ready to close—we couldn’t take it.We’d smile, nod, and tell them to “trust the process.” We’re not Realtors anymore.
We’re background actors in a motivational video that never ends.

(The others look down at their binders. The Trainer grips the clipboard, speechless.)

So yes, we’re looking for our Broker.
The one who promised structure and gave us slogans.
The one who built a system where we pay to believe in her vision.
Six signatures without a pen,
six professionals paying dues for a brand that forgot our names.

(The Trainer, half out the door, calls back weakly.)

TRAINER
I’ll file a ticket. Someone from IT will—

REGINA
There is no IT. There’s no leadership, no login, no line manager—

(The projector flashes “ERROR 404 — BROKER NOT FOUND.” The screen goes black.)

REGINA
Reboot the system.
(louder)
Reboot. The. System!

The Hell with all of You!

LEADS! LISTINGS! LEVERAGE!

(The End)

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