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Yovan Gabric · Royal LePage Pinnacle Real Estate, Brokerage

One idea a week, six posts, three platforms.

A repeating content calendar built on your existing five pillars — BUILD, MARKET, DWELL, MIND, HUMAN — and on the only model a solo agent can actually sustain: think once, publish six times.

The engine

Stop planning posts. Plan anchors.

The agents who sustain this aren't producing thirty ideas a month. They're producing four, and getting seven posts out of each.

Planning post-by-post fails because it asks you to have a new idea every time you open the app. Planning by anchor asks you for one piece of real thinking a week — the kind you already do in the car after a showing — and then routes it through three platforms in the format each one rewards.

Repurposed content also measurably outperforms one-off posting, because the same message reinforces itself across the places one person already scrolls.

THE ANCHOR one teaching idea ~40 min, once a week Facebook — long post Tuesday · the full argument Instagram — carousel Wednesday · 5–7 slides Instagram — Reel Friday · 30–45s to camera LinkedIn — pro angle Tuesday · different audience Stories + follow-up drive back to the carousel and the DM
The anchor is written once and never posted verbatim four times — each platform gets the format it actually rewards, and LinkedIn gets a different angle entirely because it's a different audience. Stories and the Friday follow-up cost almost nothing and do most of the work of turning a reader into a DM.
Weekly rhythm

The same shape, every week

Three to five posts a week, held consistently, beats daily posting for a fortnight followed by silence. This grid is the ceiling, not the floor — if a week goes sideways, protect Tuesday and drop the rest.

DayFacebookInstagramLinkedIn
Mon — Stories ×3 — teaser for the week's anchor —
Tue ANCHOR — full long-form post — ANCHOR — professional angle, or PDF document
Wed — Carousel — 5–7 slides from the anchor + Stories driving to it —
Thu Light unit — HUMAN / MIND / DWELL Light unit as a single image or Story set Second post, or 20 min commenting on others
Fri Follow-up — "what people asked about Tuesday" Reel — 30–45s talking the anchor through —
Sat — Stories — behind the scenes, Capone, a site walk —
Sun Batch day — 90 minutes. Write next week's anchor, build the carousel, shoot the Reel, schedule everything. This is the only session that requires real thinking.
The one habit that makes it work

Protect the Sunday batch, not the daily posting

Everything above is scheduled in one sitting. Daily posting is where consistency dies, because it competes with showings, offers and family. Ninety minutes on Sunday competes with nothing.

If you can only do one thing from this entire document: write Tuesday's anchor on Sunday.

Platforms

Three audiences, not one audience in three places

The most common mistake is cross-posting the same consumer content everywhere. It's why most agents' LinkedIn is dead — they're posting first-time-buyer tips to a feed full of other professionals.

Facebook

Local buyers & sellers · your farm
  • Longest text works. Only the first ~125 characters show before "See more" — the hook has to land there.
  • Links get suppressed in the feed. Put the link in the first comment instead.
  • Local groups are worth more than your page for reach — but read each group's self-promo rules first.
  • Boosting = Special Ad Category. Declare it, and expect to lose postal-code targeting.
  • This is where the townhouse series lives.

Instagram

Younger buyers · first-timers · referral pool
  • Carousels out-engage Reels — roughly 10% vs 6% engagement in 2026 data — but Reels reach people who don't follow you. You need both: carousels to convert, Reels to be found.
  • No clickable links in captions. Drive to DM keywords instead — which is also better for lead quality.
  • The hook must be on the image, not just the caption. Slide 1 decides everything.
  • Stories daily-ish; they're where the DMs actually start.

LinkedIn

Referral partners · investors · your ventures
  • Not a consumer channel. Audience is agents in other markets, mortgage brokers, lawyers, accountants, investors, business owners.
  • PDF document posts get the highest engagement of any format, and under 5% of profiles use them — you already produce PDFs, so this is free advantage.
  • No housing Special Ad Category here, but keep the professional register.
  • This is the home for FirstPoint, the commercial/healthcare property angle, and Groundwork.
  • Referrals from out-of-market agents are the highest-margin lead you can get.
The mix

Your five pillars, held to ratio

Three content units a week × four weeks = twelve slots per cycle. Distributed to your existing mix, that's exactly:

Build 4

The builder's eye. Cosmetic vs structural, the $500 fix worth $5,000, "don't renovate that." Your unmatched asset.

Market 2

The honest market. Plain-English TRREB, resale vs preconstruction, sell-first vs buy-first.

Dwell 2

Architecture, modern homes, interiors, the philosophy of home.

Mind 2

Discipline, patience as strategy, biking, the long game. Stoicism without ever saying the word.

Human 2

Family, cooking, Capone, a reno actually materializing. Cheapest to produce, often the best performing.

BUILD carries the most weight because it's the thing no other agent in Halton can credibly post. Anyone can share a market stat. Almost nobody can walk a house and tell you what's cosmetic and what's structural.

Cycle

Eight weeks, mapped

Weeks 1–4 are the cycle. Weeks 5–8 repeat the shape with new anchors. The five townhouse posts are already slotted into their pillar positions — one every two weeks, so the series carries a full quarter without ever looking like a campaign.

Week 1Launch the townhouse series
Build

Freehold vs. condo vs. POTL — Townhouse Post 01

Ownership structures most buyers never check. Creative is built and ready.

Ships: FB long post Tue · IG carousel Wed (one slide per ownership type) · IG Reel Fri · LI: "what I wish more buyers asked before writing an offer"

Market

What $850K buys in four towns — Townhouse Post 02

Comment CTA. The comments are the qualification — people hand you a budget and a town in public.

Ships: FB Thu · IG carousel — one slide per town · LI skip

Human

Why I left construction for real estate

The pinned "about me" post. "For 25 years I built other people's homes. Now I help them read the one they're about to buy."

Ships: FB Fri · IG single image + Stories · LI Tue — strongest opener you have on that platform

Week 2The builder's eye
Build

Cosmetic or structural? Five things buyers panic about that don't matter

And two they ignore that do. Photograph five real examples on your next showing round.

Ships: FB Tue · IG carousel Wed · IG Reel Fri · LI PDF document — "a builder's walkthrough checklist"

Dwell

Why 1970s townhouses have better bones than most new builds

Genuinely contrarian, genuinely true, and only you can say it with authority.

Ships: FB Thu · IG carousel · LI skip

Mind

The right move isn't the fastest one

Buyers who waited and won. Patience as a strategy, not a personality trait.

Ships: IG Stories + single post · LI Thu — this register works well there

Week 3Sellers and closing costs
Build

What first-time buyers get wrong — Townhouse Post 04

Build the closing-cost PDF first. Real Ontario land transfer tax figures, every line item. It becomes the LinkedIn document post too — one asset, two channels.

Ships: FB Tue · IG carousel Wed · IG Reel Fri · LI PDF document Tue

Market

The move-up sequencing problem — Townhouse Post 03

Highest-value post in the series. One conversation produces a listing and a purchase.

Ships: FB Thu · IG carousel — three slides, one per sequence · LI Thu — sequencing is a professional-register topic

Human

A reno actually materializing

Before / during / after on a real project. The thesis in one post: concrete becomes a kitchen.

Ships: IG Reel or carousel · FB Fri · Stories throughout

Week 4Market truth & the long game
Build

The $500 fix that adds $5,000 — and the $30,000 one that adds nothing

Seller-facing, and the single most shareable thing you can post.

Ships: FB Tue · IG carousel Wed · IG Reel Fri · LI PDF — "pre-listing prep, by a former builder"

Market

Market conditions — Townhouse Post 05

Fill the TRREB placeholders before this ships. Runs monthly from here on as your recurring market slot.

Ships: FB Thu · IG carousel · LI Thu — market data performs well there

Dwell

What makes a house feel calm

Light, ceiling height, sightlines, storage. Architecture as lived experience, not spec sheet.

Ships: IG carousel · FB Fri · LI skip

Weeks 5–8 repeat the shape. Keep BUILD in the Tuesday anchor slot, rotate a fresh MARKET topic on Thursday, and let HUMAN/MIND/DWELL fill the third. The townhouse series is spent by week 4 — replace it with the next series you build, using the same card template.

Standing rules

Applies to every post, every week

  • Brokerage name on everything. Royal LePage® with the ®, and Royal LePage Pinnacle Real Estate, Brokerage — organic and paid alike, per RECO Bulletins 5.1 and 5.3.
  • Boosting on Facebook or Instagram = Special Ad Category: Housing. Self-declare it. You lose age, gender, postal code and detailed-interest targeting, so the copy must name the towns.
  • Never describe who should live somewhere. "Perfect for young families", "great for retirees", "safe neighbourhood" — flagged by Meta, and family status and age are protected under Ontario's Human Rights Code.
  • Every number gets a source and a date. No exceptions, and no market stat you haven't personally verified.
  • No invented testimonials or reviews. Ever.
  • Construction observations complement, not replace inspectors, engineers and contractors — say so when the post gets technical.
  • Red, black and white only. No blue, no gold.
Outstanding before Week 3: the closing-cost PDF for Townhouse Post 04 doesn't exist yet, and the post promises it by name. Build it first or swap Week 3's anchor. Also still open — builder confirmation on using the Aura renderings in general townhouse content.
Measurement

Four numbers, monthly

Ignore followers and likes. They move for reasons unrelated to whether anyone will ever hire you.

MetricWhy it's the one that matters
DMs startedThe only real conversion event. Every CTA in this calendar drives here on purpose.
Saves and sharesSaves mean useful; shares mean trusted. Both predict reach far better than likes.
Profile → contact tapsIntent to actually reach you, as opposed to intent to keep scrolling.
Conversations that became appointmentsTracked by hand. Nothing in any platform's analytics will tell you this, and it's the number the whole system exists to move.

Review monthly, not weekly. Social compounds slowly and weekly numbers are noise — you'll talk yourself out of a working strategy by reading it too often.

Post copy and creatives: C:\CLAUDE\Facebook\TOWNHOUSE-POSTS.md · creatives\ · rebuild with node build-cards.js all. Engagement benchmarks: Inman, July 2026 · cadence and repurposing data, 2026. Nothing here is legal advice — confirm advertising wording with your broker of record.