Licensed and thinking about a move
You've built something, and you want to know it'll be in good hands. We'll show you exactly what you keep, who's backing you, and how a move works, quietly and on your timeline.
See what's includedCareers at Clearwater
We live here.We work here.
For more than thirty years, Clearwater agents have built their careers in the towns they love, with a company that treats them like family behind them. If that sounds like what you've been looking for, we'd love to meet you.
- Owner-operated since 1993
- 30+ offices in five states
- The Land Report America's Best Brokerages, ten years running
Why Clearwater
A brokerage built by people who love this place.
Clearwater started in 1993 as one small office in Seeley Lake, Montana. As founder Kevin Wetherell likes to say, it started on "a credit card and a dream." Today we're more than thirty offices across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington and North Dakota.
What hasn't changed is how we treat each other. Our agents share referrals across five states, pick up the phone for one another, and stay. So many are celebrating twenty-year anniversaries that we've stopped being surprised.
We built Clearwater so you can focus on your clients and your community, with a real team taking care of the rest.
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Kevin Wetherell
Founder
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Shaun Michael Lewis
Chief Executive Officer
Seeley Lake, 1993
Our values
- Community
- Loyalty
- Ethics
- Professionalism
- Teamwork
Wherever you are in your career, there's a place for you here.
Everything on this page applies to all three. Start with the one that sounds like you.
New to real estate
You know these towns, these rivers and this way of life. We'll teach you the business with a structured first 90 days, a mentor in your region, and a broker who picks up the phone.
See how we trainStepping back from active sales
Your network still calls you. Keep your license with Clearwater, send those friends to an agent you trust, and earn a referral split, with no monthly fees or MLS dues.
Learn about referral agents
Marketing
Marketing that sells the place, not just the property.
People come to the Mountain West for a way of life. Our full-time marketing team tells that story for every listing, through channels no other brokerage in our five states can offer. You focus on your clients. We'll make sure the world sees what you're selling.
Find Your Wild
Our own 75-page property and lifestyle magazine, published twice a year. More than 60,000 copies go to hotels, grocery stores and visitor centers across the region, and every one of your listings is in it at no cost to you.
Sports Afield Trophy Properties
Clearwater is the only brokerage in our five states affiliated with America's oldest outdoors magazine. Qualifying listings appear in every issue, at the Dallas Safari Club and Safari Club International conventions, and across Land.com's network.
Your brand, everywhere
Signs shipped to your door. Flyers and social graphics built from your listing in minutes. Your own customizable website with a live MLS feed. Direct mail we design, list and send for you, where you pay only for the cards and postage.
Boundaria™
Our in-house mapping and parcel platform, built for land, farm, ranch and recreational work. Property Chronicle lets you and your clients watch a parcel change across two decades of aerial imagery.
The Hub
One dashboard for your marketing tools, brand assets, CRM, magazine submissions and website.
ClearwaterProperties.com
A fast, modern search that lets buyers search by interest or keyword, and keeps them coming back.
- 60,000+
- magazine copies a year
- 40+
- syndication partners, including Zillow, Realtor.com and Land.com
- 5.5M
- annual social reach through Sports Afield
- 15
- MLS memberships
Support & training
You sell. We'll carry the rest.
Nobody at Clearwater gets a login and a "good luck." Whether you're brand new or bringing twenty years of experience, your first 90 days follow a plan we call Headwaters, named for the place where a clear river begins.
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Weeks 1–2
Settle in
Your email, CRM, phone system, transaction platform and Hub access, set up and ready to go. Business cards ordered, and your profile live on ClearwaterProperties.com.
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Week 3 onward
Learn alongside a mentor
A mentor from your own region works real files with you: listing appointments, forms and transactions, start to close. It's a person whose phone rings, not a name in a directory.
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Months 1–6
Boot Camp
Two days on the brand, the culture and the Clearwater Way, with meals and lodging on us. Most people leave with new friends.
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Every year
Keep growing
Clearwater Revival brings the whole company together for two days, ending at the awards banquet. We reimburse 50% of your GRI, and our agent-only Advisory Board reports directly to leadership.
Day-to-day support
- Transaction coordination and broker support
- Lone Wolf transaction management
- Microsoft 365
- An AI-enabled phone system that routes leads to you after hours
- $2M errors & omissions coverage
Community
Main Street, not an office park.
While much of the industry moves to virtual offices, we're investing in real ones: log cabins and storefronts on the busiest road in town. There's a desk there for you, a place to meet clients, or just somewhere to get out of the truck.
Show up for your town
Tents, banners and flags for any event. Branded water and flags for the Fourth and Veterans Day. Branded moving trailers you can lend to clients and local nonprofits.
$1,361,814
given to 200+ local programs, and counting.
On every closing, 1% goes to a local nonprofit the agent chooses, in the town where the home sold. Clearwater gives alongside you, sharing the cost in the same proportion as your split. Fire departments, food banks, 4-H, search and rescue: at year's end, we hand over the checks in person.
30+ office and agent locations across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington and North Dakota, plus Costa Rica and Belize.
Thirty-three years in the making.
- 1993
- Founded in Seeley Lake, still owner-operated
- 30+
- Offices across five states
- 100+
- Agents across the Mountain West
- 10 years
- America's Best Brokerages, The Land Report
- $1.36M
- Given to 200+ local programs
The business side
Simple, fair, and in writing.
We get paid when you get paid. There's no monthly bill to be a Clearwater agent, and your regional broker will put the full fee schedule in writing on your first call.
What you'll never pay
- Desk fees $0
- Errors & omissions coverage ($2M aggregate) $0
- Transaction management, CRM and your agent website $0
- Property and open-house signs, shipped to you $0
- Tents, banners, flags and event displays $0
- Listing placement in Find Your Wild $0
- Monthly technology, platform and admin fees $0
What comes out at closing
Just two things:
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An association fee that funds the marketing, services and staff support on this page.
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A shared 1% community contribution to a local nonprofit you choose. Clearwater pays its share in the same proportion as your split.
That's the whole list. Ask your broker for the schedule in writing. We'd love for you to compare real numbers.
See everything that's included
Run your business
- The Hub Included
- Your own customizable website with live MLS feed and optional custom domain Included
- Lone Wolf transaction management Included
- Microsoft 365 (50 GB mailbox, 1 TB OneDrive, Teams, Office) Included
- Wildix AI-enabled phone system Included
- Market analytics across every region Included
- $2M E&O coverage Included
- CREXI & LoopNet memberships for commercial listings Included
Market your listings
- Property signs (24×30 or 48×36 half-arch) shipped to your office or home Included
- Open-house signs at every office Included
- Flyers, social graphics and branded templates Included
- Find Your Wild, print and digital Included
- SATP listings promoted as Signature Listings on Land.com Included
- Expired-listing letter and postcard campaigns, run for you Included
- Advertising co-op (you contribute per closing, we match it) Matched
- Land Report, Sports Afield, Big Sky Journal and select regional publications 50% paid
Show up in your town
- A desk at the office nearest you Included
- Tents, banners, feather flags and table covers Included
- Branded water and 8×12 flags for parade days Included
- Branded moving trailers Included
- New-agent gear credit $200
- Bass Pro Shops custom embroidered apparel 10% off
- Magazine rack incentive, per high-traffic placement $75
Five questions worth asking any brokerage
Choosing a brokerage is a big decision. These are the questions we'd ask in your shoes, and we're happy to answer every one of them in writing.
- What do I pay every month, whether or not I close a deal?
- What comes off the top of each closing, before the split?
- Who pays for my signs, insurance and marketing?
- Is there a cap, and what resets it?
- Can I see all of that in writing?
Referral agents
Done selling? Keep your license, and keep earning.
Your network keeps calling long after you stop showing homes. As a Clearwater referral agent, you pay no monthly fees and don't need MLS, NAR or association memberships. License renewal and CE are your only carrying costs, and we reimburse them once your referral income clears a threshold. Earn a competitive split on every closing you send our way.
In their own words.
Unscripted conversations with Clearwater agents about why they joined, and why they stay.
Culture
Clearwater agents, in their own words · 0:50
Lincoln Slonaker, Brittney Hogue & Hannah Bruha
Community
The Clearwater Way, part 1 · 0:56
Kristen Clark & Brittney Hogue
Family
The Clearwater Way, part 2 · 0:58
Charity Therriault, Lincoln Slonaker & Rachel Doble
A different kind of brokerage
Why agents chose Clearwater · 0:53
Hannah Bruha & Brittney Hogue
Montana way of life
Where we live, and why it matters · 0:58
Hannah Bruha & Cale Updegrave
The process
What joining actually looks like · 0:58
Cale Updegrave, Hannah Bruha & Rachel Doble
“I worked for other brokerages, and it's all about transactional and business. Clearwater is more about a lifestyle. It's not cutthroat. I can call anybody in the company at any point in time, and they're there to have your back.”
“Everybody wants to do well, but they're also standing at the door waiting to help. I'll call four or five different people and say, I'm working on this, you got any help? And they're providing it.”
“Clearwater just felt like the right fit because it had all of it together. You don't have to put on a suit and tie to work for them. You just have to be who you are.”
“You're not a cog in the wheel, you're a family member. It's like having an extended family where if I call my brother or sister and say, I need you right now, they're coming.”
All quotes are from current Clearwater Properties agents, transcribed from unscripted interviews recorded in 2026. Agents are compensated as independent contractors of the brokerage. Individual experiences vary; no level of production or income is typical or guaranteed. Quotes edited for length only.
The Clearwater Way
We look out for each other.
Clearwater grows on purpose, a few agents at a time, in towns where the name on the sign has to keep meaning something. Our first rule is a simple one: no sharks. We share referrals, help each other out, and celebrate each other's wins.
You'll feel right at home here if you're…
Rooted.
You're from one of our towns, or you chose it on purpose. Your clients are people you'll see at the grocery store for the next twenty years, and you like it that way.
Generous.
You pass along referrals, show up for the parade, and like knowing that 1% of every closing goes back to the town it came from.
Curious about the land.
Water rights, grazing leases, hunting seasons, access easements. You can hold that conversation, or you'd love to learn. We'll teach you.
Here for the long run.
You'd rather build a twenty-year reputation than chase this quarter's deal. We supply the engine; you run a business you're proud of.
Talk with someone who'd be in your corner.
Your first conversation is with the regional broker who would support your business every day. Call, email or book fifteen minutes, whatever's easiest.
Montana
Jeannette
Jeannette Carr-Smith
Idaho & Washington
Kelsie
Kelsie Wetherell
Wyoming
Kevin
Kevin Wetherell
North Dakota
Tanya
Tanya Fyfe
Every conversation is confidential. We'll always reach you on your cell, never at your current office.
What happens next.
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A friendly call.
Fifteen minutes with your regional broker. Ask anything.
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A real conversation.
Sit down together to go over your market, the full fee schedule in writing, and answers to all five questions.
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A short application.
Once you're both sure. It takes minutes.
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Your decision.
On your timeline. No pressure calls, no drip campaigns, and the door stays open.
Our promise: We return every call and note within two business days.
Questions we hear often.
Do I need a real estate license to reach out?
No. If you're working toward your license, or just thinking about it, we'd love to talk. Once you're licensed, Headwaters walks you through your first 90 days with a mentor from your region.
What does it cost to join?
There are no monthly fees. At closing, an association fee and a shared 1% community contribution come off the top, and that's it. Your regional broker will give you the full schedule in writing.
Will my current brokerage find out I'm looking?
No. Every conversation is confidential, and we'll only ever contact you on your cell.
What if there's no Clearwater office in my town?
Reach out anyway. We have more than thirty locations across five states, and we grow where good agents are.
I'm licensed but done with active sales. Is there a place for me?
Yes. Referral agents keep their license with Clearwater, pay no monthly fees, and earn a split on every closing they send our way.
What kind of training do you offer?
Every new agent follows Headwaters, our written 90-day plan: setup, a mentor on real transactions, and Boot Camp. After that, there's Clearwater Revival every year, 50% GRI reimbursement, and specialized land and ranch training.
Ready to stake your claim? Let's talk.
Tell us a little about yourself and your regional broker will be in touch within two business days. No résumé or business plan needed. That's what the conversation is for.
Prefer to talk now? Call 800.577.3013 or email careers@clearwaterproperties.com.
Clearwater Properties and Clearwater Montana Properties are licensed real estate brokerages in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington and North Dakota. All offices and teams operate under the licensed brokerage; no team or office is an independent brokerage.
The Land Report "America's Best Brokerages" totals are self-reported to the publication and not independently verified. Sports Afield Trophy Properties dollar-volume standing is self-reported; SATP publishes no member rankings.