Bryan Bjerke
Founder & Sponsoring Broker, Spirit Real Estate Group
I built Spirit after spending eight years inside traditional brokerages — watching good agents lose half their commission to splits, fight to get paid, and wait days for a broker to call back. Spirit fixes every one of those pain points. You keep 100% of your commission, you get my personal cell, and I answer.
Tom Birdwell
Broker & Recruiting Director, Spirit Real Estate Group
Tom is a lifelong North Texan who grew up in Allen and has called the area home his entire life — which means he knows these neighborhoods and the people in them firsthand.
Licensed in Texas since 2008, he has built his career on helping people, keeping relationships for the long haul, and doing business the right way. As a Broker with Spirit, he serves clients while helping other agents build and grow businesses of their own.
Tom is also a Christian, and his faith shapes how he works: honesty, integrity, respect, and fairness, every day. For him, real estate was never about property — it's about people and helping them reach their goals.
The story behind Spirit
Bryan started in Texas real estate in 2006, building a decade of hands-on experience as a residential agent and apartment locator across the DFW metroplex. Along the way, he worked under several traditional brokerages — and watched the same problems repeat.
Commission splits eating into agents' income. Invoicing falling through the cracks. Brokers who were impossible to reach. Agents treated like a number on a roster, not a professional running their own business.
In 2015, after eight years inside those brokerages, Bryan founded Spirit Real Estate Group with a simple goal: build the brokerage he wished he'd had. 100% commission. Real broker access. Every back-office headache handled — so agents can focus on clients, not paperwork.
Today, Spirit sponsors Realtors, apartment locators, commercial agents, LLC entities, and team leaders across Texas — DFW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and beyond.
TREC rules, contracts, and ethics — every transaction, every time. No shortcuts, no gray areas.
A deal done well protects the agent, the client, and the brokerage. Speed never beats getting it right.
A brokerage should work for the agent — not the other way around.
Flat $99/mo. No commission splits, ever. Annual option saves you another $189/year.
Spirit invoices and collects every commission. You don't chase property managers — we do.
You get my personal cell number at sign-up. Texts and calls returned within 1 business day, always.
CRM, email, E&O insurance, payroll on the 1st & 15th, vendor compliance — included.
A note on faith and family
I'm a devout Christian, married, with five children. My faith isn't a sales pitch — it's the foundation I run this business from. It's why I treat every agent the way I'd want a broker to treat me, and why I'd rather lose a deal than cut a corner.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord."
"Not to us, O Lord, but to your name be the glory."
You'll always reach a real broker. Usually within 1 business day.
Every Spirit agent gets my personal cell number at sign-up. Call, text, email — whatever works for you. That's not a marketing line. It's how I've run this brokerage since day one.