About the agency
TheKabza.com is a full-service residential real estate agency headquartered in Austin, Texas, representing buyers, sellers, renters, landlords and investors across six United States metros. Kabza means possession — the moment keys genuinely change hands — and everything here is engineered backward from that moment rather than forward from a listing photo.
Possession, on the date we promised.
The founding story
TheKabza.com started in 2019 in a single rented room off Congress Avenue in Austin, opened by agents who were tired of watching sound transactions come apart in the final ten days. The pattern rarely varied. A title commitment nobody read until closing week. An easement discovered after a client had already priced a fence and a pool. An appraisal ordered late by a lender no one had vetted. A coordinator the buyer had never spoken to, emailing at nine at night to say closing had moved to Tuesday. None of that is caused by a shortage of enthusiasm. It is caused by work that was never assigned to a person and a date.
So the agency was built backward from the end. The title commitment is ordered in the opening days of a contract and walked exception by exception — easements, mineral and solar reservations, HOA and municipal liens, unreleased deeds of trust, survey gaps — while there is still time and leverage to cure what does not belong there. The valuation is a document you can audit: the comparable addresses we used, their close dates and terms, the adjustments we made, and the properties we deliberately excluded. The closing calendar is written, dated and owned by name, and you receive it before you sign anything.
What we refuse is as much of the practice as what we sell:
Seven years on, the work is the same across every service line — helping clients buy a home with a dedicated buyer's agent, sell a house with a written home valuation behind the price, lease, manage and invest — and so is the standard. When the numbers do not work, we say so, including when saying so costs us the file. If that is how you want to be represented, talk to a licensed agent.
Operating standards
Four operating standards, applied the same way to a $320,000 first purchase and a twelve-door portfolio.
The metric we manage to
Most agencies are measured on showings booked and signs in yards. We are measured on whether possession happened on the date we committed to in writing. That single change in scoring reorders everything: diligence moves to the front of the transaction, and surprises stop arriving at the signing table.
One person, start to finish
The licensed agent who takes your first call stays on the file through the final walkthrough. Support staff do real work behind the scenes, but they never become your point of contact by default, and a file is never reassigned without your written consent first.
Three deliverables, every time
An opinion is what an agent thinks a house is worth. A document is what an appraiser, an underwriter and a judge can read. Every engagement produces the same three artefacts, and you keep all of them whether or not the transaction closes.
Whose interests we carry
We represent one party in a transaction, we disclose every fee and vendor relationship in writing before you sign, and we apply identical screening criteria to every rental applicant. We will not answer a question that asks us to characterise a neighborhood by the demographics of the people living in it.
The people
Four licensed practitioners, each with a market they personally cover and a discipline they own for the whole firm.
Founder and Designated Broker, Austin
Imran opened the firm in 2019 after a decade of listing and buyer work in central Austin. He still carries a personal file load, reads every Title Review Memo the Texas desk issues, and covers Zilker, Bouldin Creek, Travis Heights and Hyde Park.
Managing Broker, Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston
Dana came from six years inside a title company, and it shows. She reads Schedule B before the inspector is booked, insists on an independent structural opinion on older DFW homes, and quotes flood and hail insurance during the option period rather than at closing.
Director of Leasing and Property Management
Marisol wrote the screening criteria applied identically to every applicant, reconciles owner trust accounts monthly, and runs interior condition inspections in Austin and Phoenix. Deposit disputes on her files are settled with time-stamped photographs, not memory.
Head of Investment Advisory, Miami and Nashville
Curtis underwrites before he tours. He models post-sale property tax reassessment explicitly, quotes windstorm and flood premiums instead of estimating them, and confirms short-term rental permit eligibility by zoning district before a client writes an offer.
Team names, biographies and license numbers are placeholders, and the portraits are stock photography. Replace all four with the real licensed agents and their own headshots before launch.
Coverage
One office is our headquarters. Six markets are our practice.
Austin is home — the office sits on Congress Avenue and the firm's Texas license is held there — but every market we list is covered by agents who live in it, not by a referral desk that passes your name to a stranger for a cut. We work Austin, where the central corridor, the Eanes and Lake Travis school zones and the MUD-heavy suburban ring each trade on different rules; Dallas–Fort Worth, where expansive clay soils and hail-region insurance decide more files than price does; Houston, where there is no conventional zoning and flood history is a diligence item, not a footnote; Phoenix–Scottsdale, where roof age, HVAC life and irrigation rights carry the real money; Miami, where a condominium's reserve study and estoppel letter can move the true purchase price more than the negotiation did; and Nashville, where the Davidson–Williamson county line and the owner-occupied short-term rental permit rules change what a property is worth to you.
Listings on each market page are displayed through the licensed MLS or IDX feed for that region, with the required attribution and a visible last-refreshed timestamp, and every published figure carries its source and its reporting month. Our Texas coverage is supported by membership in the state association, Texas REALTORS. Licensing is held state by state: Texas [TREC License #], Arizona [ADRE License #], Florida [FREC/DBPR License #] and Tennessee [TREC-TN License #]. You can read the orientation for all six market areas we cover, or start with buying or selling if you already know which side of the table you are on.
No obligation and no pressure
