A closing gift for your buyers
A closing gift your clients keep.
Custom portraits of the home they just bought. Made from a photo, framed, and shipped to you ready to give. Your name on the card.
The problem with closing gifts
Most closing gifts are gone in a week.
You put real thought into the gift, and then it disappears. The bottle gets opened that weekend. The candle burns down by February. The gift basket is recycled with the moving boxes. Six months later, the family remembers the house, not who helped them buy it.
A good closing gift should do two jobs. It should feel personal to the family, and it should keep your name in the house long after the keys change hands.
How long the usual gifts last
What it is
A portrait of the home they just bought.
We take a photo of the home (the listing image works fine) and turn it into a piece of art in a style that suits the house. Then we print it, mount it and frame it so it is ready to hang the day they move in.
A style that suits the house
A brick colonial, a modern build and a farmhouse do not want the same treatment. Pick a style, or send us the listing and we will send back two options.
- Oil painting
- Watercolor
- Artist sketch
- Architect rendering
- Black and white
Made from one photo
Send the listing photo or snap one on your phone. No sitting, no visit, nothing for the family to do.
Framed to suit the home
Mounted and framed so it fits a mantel, an entryway or a hallway wall without any fuss.
Shipped to you, ready to give
It arrives at your office, wrapped, so you hand it over at closing or drop it by the new place.
Your name on it
Your name on the card, your brokerage in the piece.
The Painted Mantel never signs the gift. You do. Every portrait leaves with a cream enclosure card for your handwritten line, and your name goes last.
If you want the piece itself to carry your brand, we can work a small, discreet mark of your brokerage into the artwork, the way a painter signs a corner. Tasteful enough that the family is happy to hang it, and clear enough that every guest who asks about it hears your name.
Welcome home. It was a pleasure helping you find this one. Enjoy every room.
Your name, your brokerage
Why agents send it
The gift that keeps working for you.
Most of your future business comes from people you have already helped. The hard part is staying in their minds for the years between one move and the next. A portrait of their home does that quietly, every day, from the wall.
A fridge magnet gets covered by a school calendar. A portrait of the home gets pointed at.
the family sees your gift on the wall, not once at closing.
who asks about the portrait hears who helped them buy the house.
starts with the question of who to call. Your name is already in the room.
How it works
Choose it once. We handle the rest.
Three steps, and only the first one is yours.
After the first one, it gets simpler still. Tell us how you like it once, and from then on you just send the next address.
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Send us the home
Forward the listing photo, or just the address, and tell us when you close. That is all we need from you.
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Pick a style
Oil, watercolor, sketch, rendering, black and white. Tell us if you want your brokerage mark worked in.
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We do the rest
We print, mount, frame and ship to you. It arrives at your office wrapped and ready, with the enclosure card for your handwritten line.
Two moments, one gift
For the new home, or the one they are leaving.
A small program, done well. We keep our list of agents short enough to make each piece for one home and one family. Residential only, and always in your name.
For your buyers
Something for the new place
A portrait of the home they just bought, ready to hang the week they move in. It marks the beginning of their life there, and it came from you.
For your sellers
A keepsake of the home they raised a family in
Sellers leave more behind than square footage. A portrait of the house they are saying goodbye to is often the gift they talk about most, and sellers refer just as much as buyers do.
The next step
Send us the address of your next closing.
Book a short call with Jennifer. We will look at the home, suggest a style, and send back a mock-up so you can see it before you decide. No commitment until you have seen it.
Jennifer Tollefsrud, Founder