About heroSOLD
heroSOLD is a business platform built by the James Sanson Team on top of Real Broker, LLC. We help military families navigate home decisions tied to PCS orders, deployment, hardship, and divorce. The James Sanson Team has been working Arizona real estate since 2002, helping thousands of Arizona households and earning hundreds of 5-star reviews along the way.
How heroSOLD works (and what we are not)
The easiest way to understand heroSOLD is the operating-system-and-app analogy:
- Real Broker, LLC is the operating system. Real is the licensed brokerage. Real holds our team's licenses, manages our transactions, processes commissions, and provides the cloud technology and company-wide programs that all Real agents have access to.
- heroSOLD is the app that runs on that operating system. heroSOLD is a business platform built by the James Sanson Team to serve military families specifically. The brand, the PCS-focused playbooks, the deployment-aware systems, the listing approach, the content on this site, and the referral network being built base by base are all platform features that run on top of Real Broker's brokerage.
This distinction matters for two reasons. First, accuracy: heroSOLD is not a brokerage. Anything brokerage-related (your representation agreement, transaction file, commission processing) flows through Real Broker, LLC under James Sanson's license (AZ Real Estate License #SA535310000). Second, clarity: when you work with heroSOLD, you get both layers. Real's licensed infrastructure plus the heroSOLD platform's military specialization.
Who we are
heroSOLD is built and run by the James Sanson Team. James Sanson is the team lead and the principal point of accountability for client work. The team operates statewide in Arizona under Arizona Department of Real Estate (ADRE) rules, with concentrated coverage at our five launch bases.
Brokerage: Real Broker, LLC
Team Lead: James Sanson
AZ Real Estate License: SA535310000
Platform: heroSOLD (built by the James Sanson Team)
Team affiliation: James Sanson Team at Real Broker, LLC
Working Arizona real estate since 2002
The James Sanson Team has been working Arizona real estate for more than two decades. James started in 2002, before iPhones, before Zillow's lead model, before the 2008 crash and the 2012 recovery and everything that came after. In that time, our team has helped thousands of Arizona households with their real estate needs and earned hundreds of 5-star reviews along the way. Reviews are publicly verifiable; ask us where to find them and we will point you to them.
That track record matters because most teams pitching real estate services are themselves relatively new. We are still in production: our team's seller-side AZ brand, MaricopaHomesForSale, lists and closes homes every week. The systems we run on the heroSOLD platform come from that ongoing production work, not from a slide deck. When you ask us a question about pricing, marketing, VA loan handling, deployment-affected sales, or a difficult hardship situation, the answer comes from someone who has done it across two decades.
None of this is a promise about your specific outcome. Real estate outcomes depend on your situation, the market, your timing, and many factors no one can guarantee. It is, however, the credential of the team you would be working with.
What we do
heroSOLD focuses exclusively on the seller side of military home transactions. That means:
- Selling a home tied to PCS orders (timing the sale around report dates)
- Helping you decide rent vs. sell when you PCS
- VA loan handling at sale (assumption, payoff coordination, entitlement restoration)
- Remote home sales during deployment
- Short sale and pre-foreclosure work when a hardship hits
- Divorce-related home sales, including military-specific complications
We do not represent buyers, do not list rental properties, and do not run a property management arm. If those services are what you need, we can refer you to vetted partners.
Why military-specific
Most real estate sites lump military clients in with everyone else. The reality is that military home sales come with timing constraints (report dates, deployment windows), legal protections (SCRA, MSRRA), loan mechanics (VA assumption, entitlement, COE), and practical realities (split households, JAG legal-assistance access) that the average agent never works with.
Our team is built around those realities. We are members of the National Association of REALTORS and the Arizona Association of REALTORS, and we maintain ongoing education on military client needs through MRP-style coursework. We are not endorsed by, affiliated with, or approved by any branch of the United States Armed Forces, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or any government entity.
Our service area
Arizona statewide today, with concentrated coverage at five military installations:
- Luke AFB (Glendale / West Valley)
- Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson)
- Fort Huachuca (Sierra Vista)
- MCAS Yuma (Yuma)
- Yuma Proving Ground (Yuma)
Geographic expansion is agent-led: as expansion agents in other states join the heroSOLD platform, we light up their state. The moment an agent joins from a new state, that state's section of the site goes live, lead routing turns on, and the heroSOLD brand deploys for that market. If you are stationed outside Arizona and need a military-experienced agent today, submit a request and we will refer you to a vetted partner in your market.
How we get paid
If you list with us, our team is paid the standard listing-side commission at closing from sale proceeds, agreed in writing in our listing agreement before any work begins. There are no hidden fees, no flat marketing fees, and no upfront charges. Real Broker, LLC processes the commission per its standard agent agreement; what reaches the James Sanson Team and supports the heroSOLD platform flows from there.
If we refer you to another Real Broker agent who handles your transaction (for example, in an area where we do not yet have a heroSOLD agent), that is a standard internal Real Broker referral. The receiving agent closes the deal; a portion of their commission returns to the James Sanson Team as the referring source within Real. This is a routine arrangement within Real Broker and does not increase what you pay or change the service you receive.
For agents considering heroSOLD
If you are a real estate agent (or aspiring agent) interested in joining the heroSOLD platform, the agent-facing pages are the right starting point:
- Join heroSOLD (overview)
- Join in Arizona (our five-base launch market)
- For military spouses, veterans, and mission-driven agents (national)
- Referral partners (for Real Broker agents who want military lead referrals)
Get in touch
Phone: 855-750-SOLD
Email: help@herosold.com