Ben Hack - Stonehaus Realty

Ben Hack - Stonehaus Realty Managing Broker for the Thompson Okanagan region, located in Kamloops. Committed to exceptional service and fast response times.

I help clients buy and sell homes throughout the region while building exceptional real estate teams across the BC Interior.

09/18/2026

The agents doing the best work in this industry aren't all doing it the same way. That's something I genuinely believe, and this conversation reminded me why.

I sat down recently with one of our agents who has built her business around something most people overlook entirely. Community. She volunteers at the Barrier Food Bank. She's involved with the North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo. She's part of the Kamloops Game Changers Society, which if you haven't heard of, look it up.

None of that is a strategy. It's just who she is. And what's happened is that the people around her have come to know, trust, and refer her because she shows up for the community consistently and without an agenda.

One of the core mantras at Stonehaus is making a difference in our community. And watching the agents in our office who actually live that out, and watching what it does for their business, is one of the more validating things I get to see regularly.

Real estate built on genuine relationships with the people around you is real estate that lasts.

DM me if you want to know more about what building a business like that actually looks like.

🏡 Stonehaus Realty | Kamloops, BC

09/15/2026

Not all leverage is created equal. Here's how I actually rank it.

Cash offer. S tier. In most markets it does the heavy lifting before the conversation even starts. No conditions, no financing risk, no uncertainty for the seller. It's the cleanest signal a buyer can send.

No subjects. Also S tier. The effect is almost identical to cash. You're telling the seller this deal is happening and you mean it. That kind of certainty commands attention at the table.

Mortgage pre-approval. S tier, but only if it's bulletproof. A pre-approval from a lender with a strong reputation changes how your offer is read in a competitive situation. A weak one barely moves the needle.

Large deposit. C tier. It shows commitment and it does represent strength on paper. But at the end of the day the number on the offer is almost always going to matter more than what's sitting in trust.

Flexible dates. D tier in most situations. Occasionally it becomes the deciding factor when both sides are dug in on timing and it turns into an actual roadblock. In that specific scenario it edges up. But as a general strategy, it's not something I'd lean on.

The buyers winning in competitive situations right now aren't winning by accident. They're showing up with the right leverage in the right order.

DM me and let's make sure your offer is structured to land.

🏡 Stonehaus Realty | Kamloops, BC

08/24/2026

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08/22/2026

I asked a simple question. Now that you've made the switch, would you do it again?

The answer came back without any hesitation. Absolutely.

08/21/2026

Scott came to Stonehaus through Teresa Betts, one of our agents. She didn't pitch him. She just told him honestly what the brokerage was about and let him make up his own mind.

What he found when he got here was something that's harder to describe than it sounds. Everyone is actually supportive. Not in a surface level way. In the way where you can walk up to someone and ask what they think about your marketing approach for a new listing, or flag a question on a contract you're not sure about, and get a real answer from someone who's genuinely invested in seeing you do well.

No single person in this business has every answer. The law book is too big, the situations too varied. What matters is having a room full of people willing to share what they know. That's what we've built.

What keeps coming back to me is why it actually works. Everyone here has arrived at the same realization at some point. When you help the people around you succeed, your own business grows. It's not a philosophy we preach. It's just what happens when you put the right people together and give them a reason to show up for each other.

DM me if that's the kind of environment you've been looking for.

🏡 Stonehaus Realty | Kamloops, BC

08/19/2026

Most buyers think they need more house. What they actually need is a better layout.

I've toured so many homes where two or three of the bedrooms have quietly become storage rooms. Boxes stacked in the corner, a treadmill nobody uses, the spare mattress propped against the wall. Nobody is sleeping there. Nobody is living in that space. And the home feels cluttered and smaller than it actually is because the stuff of life has nowhere intentional to go.

The solution people reach for is more bedrooms. More square footage. A bigger house to absorb the overflow.

But that's not actually the fix. What those homes needed was smart, dedicated storage that wasn't disguised as a bedroom. A proper crawl space. An offset storage area off the garage. A basement zone designed to hold things rather than retrofitted into one. Space that serves a specific purpose and does it well, without taking over a room that should be liveable.

When I'm helping someone find the right home I'm not just counting bedrooms. I'm asking how this layout actually functions for the life you're living. Those are different questions and they lead to different answers.

More square footage with a bad layout is still a bad layout.

DM me and let's find the one that actually works.

🏡 Stonehaus Realty | Kamloops, BC

08/17/2026

I asked Henry recently if he'd make the same switch again. He didn't hesitate.

Absolutely. More so now than when he first came over.

And that context matters. When Henry joined Stonehaus Kamloops there were just a couple of us. No office yet. No track record locally. He was betting on a direction, not a finished product. The fact that he'd make the same call now, knowing what it took to get here, says something real.

What surprised him most was how seamless the transition actually was. The backend support made it easier than he expected, and the community came together faster than either of us anticipated. We went from a handful of agents to 16, and it didn't feel like a slow grind. It felt like momentum building on itself.

Now people are coming into the office and seeing what's happening there. The collaboration. The energy. And it's becoming easier to have the conversation with agents who are curious, because they can just come in and see it for themselves.

When something is genuinely good, it's not a hard sell. People come in, they see what's actually happening, and the decision starts to feel obvious.

If you've been curious, DM me and come see it for yourself.

🏡 Stonehaus Realty | Kamloops, BC

08/15/2026

People ask me all the time if living on a golf course is actually as nice as it sounds.

Here's my honest answer. The view is the obvious part. It's what shows up in the listing photos, it's what gets people through the door, and it's genuinely stunning. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

But the view isn't why people don't leave.

What people don't talk about enough is the quiet. There's no cut through traffic because the road doesn't go anywhere except to the homes of people who chose to be here. The community is intentional in a way that most neighbourhoods simply aren't. Everyone on this street made a deliberate decision to live this way. That shows up in the environment every single day.

You wake up and it's calm. Not because nothing is happening, but because everything around you is operating at a pace that doesn't fight you. No noise you didn't choose. No chaos bleeding in from somewhere else.

The view fades into the background eventually. That's just human nature. What stays is the feeling of the place. The quiet. The community. The sense that you're somewhere people actually want to be.

That's why people don't leave.

DM me if you want to talk about what a property like this actually looks like to own.

🏡 Stonehaus Realty | Kamloops, BC

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