Michiana · Real estate teams

Your agents are showing homes. Your leads are going cold in an inbox nobody owns.

Leads land in a shared inbox and sit until someone happens to look. Transaction coordination runs off a hand-kept checklist. The same client gets re-keyed between the CRM and the MLS. Closing documents get chased at the last minute. The agents are out selling — it's the follow-up and coordination behind them that's leaking deals.

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WORK ORDERMICHIANA, IN
SEP 29, 2026
New leadsits in a shared inbox
Transaction checklistkept by hand
CRM ↔ MLSre-keyed
GUARANTEED
OR REFUNDED
Sound familiar?

If this is how the team runs, there are deals hiding in it.

The agents are closing. The friction is in everything around feeding and coordinating them.

→New leads land in a shared inbox that nobody clearly owns, and go cold before anyone replies.
→Transaction coordination runs off a checklist someone keeps by hand for every deal.
→The same client and listing details get re-keyed between the CRM and the MLS or portals.
→Showing scheduling is a round of texts and calls for each request.
→Closing documents and milestones get chased at the last minute.
→Nobody has a clear, shared picture of where each lead and each deal actually stands.
What we'd do about it

One call, then a plan a team your size will actually use.

No new CRM to roll out across the whole team — just the specific fixes that stop the leaks.

We spend 45 minutes on how a lead and a deal actually move — how a lead comes in and gets followed up, how a transaction gets coordinated, how the CRM and MLS stay in sync, and where the same information gets typed twice. I listen for the repetitive and the manual, and for the leads that go cold.

A few days later you get a short, plain-English report: what’s costing you time and deals, what fixes each thing, what it runs a month, and where to start. Most of it is connecting the tools you already pay for — instant lead follow-up, transaction checklists that run themselves, CRM and MLS that stay in sync. Some of it I can build once and hand you with no new subscription. The report is yours either way.

The math, roughly

It usually pencils out fast: manually following up leads, coordinating each transaction by hand, and re-keying between the CRM and MLS adds up to well over an hour a day — and a lead that sits for hours is a deal you paid for and lost. We work it out from your real numbers on the call — the tools to stop it usually run around $60 a month, before anything custom gets built.

~7 hrsestimated, from your lead volume
A sample fix

What this could look like

An illustrative example — not a specific client.

WORKED EXAMPLE · AGENT TEAM · 14 AGENTS
Take a 14-agent team. Leads land in a shared inbox and sit until someone notices, transaction coordination is a hand-kept checklist per deal, and client details get re-keyed between the CRM and the MLS. The leads that sit are deals the team already paid for.

→ Instant lead follow-up with clear ownership, transaction checklists that run themselves, and CRM/MLS kept in sync. ~7 hrs/week back, and fewer leads going cold.

Local answers

Questions Michiana owners ask before booking

southbend.tech · South Bend, IN · info@southbend.tech

Do you work with businesses outside South Bend?

Yes. southbend.tech is based in South Bend and works with businesses across Michiana, including Mishawaka, Elkhart, Granger, Niles, and nearby Indiana and Michigan communities.

Is this a strategy report or can you build the fix too?

The $999 audit starts with a plain-English report, but the same South Bend developer can also build the automations, integrations, and small internal tools the report recommends.

What local contact information should we use?

southbend.tech serves South Bend and Michiana businesses. The contact email is info@southbend.tech.

Ready when you are

45 minutes. Worst case, that's all it costs you.

Book a time, walk me through how a lead and a deal move through the team, and get back a plan to stop the leaks — whether or not you ever hire me again.

Book the audit — $999
A South Bend studio that builds the fixes, not just the report.