If you’ve been through an acquisition at your agency or brokerage, what was your experience like?
I’d love to hear the pros and cons—whether it was a smooth transition or full of challenges. How did it affect your team, workflows, or culture?

What changes did you notice in operations, systems, culture, or leadership?
How was the shift to new workflows or corporate structure?
Were there unexpected upsides—or growing pains?

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In the middle of it now. Technology is not running as smoothly as it could. Culture was already changing once they fired my boss. I'm only still here because I'm in school for a career change. Hoping to leave by September, if they don't find some way to fire me first.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. I’m sorry to hear it’s been such a challenging experience—especially with the tech transition and culture shifts. I’m curious, was there any part of the integration that were handled well? Or can you think of anything that could’ve made it smoother?

A couple- I feel like it is all perspective. The first one I went thru was small— we were a small office purchased by another fairly small agency, but he did have a few locations. My values did not match up with the new culture and leadership (they were very absent and used car salesy). I stuck it out for a year and left.
The second was a largish agency purchased by an even larger one. This one was positive because in my opinion we needed new technology and some better processes and the agency who purchased is had it and implemented it and it was a good thing; however some didn’t feel that way since they didn’t want to learn something new….

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