Our Story
Smith Robinson Real Estate Two70 began the way most great partnerships do — out of a shared frustration with how things were being done. Rick Robinson had spent more than a decade building one of Southeast Idaho's most respected real estate practices, closing over 1,000 transactions, mentoring agents, and serving as President of both the Upper Valley Real Estate Association and the Snake River Regional MLS. Grant Smith was building something different — a media and marketing operation reaching more than a million people a month, with cinematic instincts shaped by years of video production work before he ever sold a home.
What brought them together was a simple observation: nobody in Southeast Idaho was treating real estate like the premium experience it should be. Listings were being shot on cell phones. Marketing was a flyer and an MLS upload. Communication during escrow was an afterthought. Sellers were paying full commission and getting commodity service in return. Buyers were being passed from agent to assistant to closing coordinator with no continuity. The market deserved better, and so did the homes inside it.
So they built it. Smith Robinson Real Estate Two70 operates within the Two70 brokerage umbrella that Rick founded. The name on the door reflects the team — two co-lead agents, one broker of record, one transaction coordinator who keeps the entire operation running on time. Lean by design. Built to scale without ever feeling corporate.
We don't list homes. We build brands around them. Every property gets cinematic photography, professional video, drone footage, FPV walkthroughs when the home calls for it, and a custom social media strategy that puts the listing in front of the right buyers — not a generic blast. Our content reaches more than one million people every month across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. That's more eyeballs than any other team in this market, and it's why our average listing reaches qualified buyers in days rather than weeks.
The reference point we hold ourselves to isn't another real estate team. It's Apple. We obsess over every touchpoint of the client experience — the way our portal updates in real time, the way our calendar invites include the property photo, the way our closing day flows so smoothly that clients describe it as "anticlimactic." We keep operations lean and use AI to scale capability without adding overhead. We invest in tools that make us faster and smarter without ever feeling like we're hiding behind a screen.
That premium operating standard is paired with a deeply local practice. We grew up here. We work here. Our kids go to school here. We know which builders we trust, which lenders return calls on weekends, which inspectors flag problems early, and which neighborhoods are quietly appreciating before the data catches up. When you work with Smith Robinson, you're working with people who treat Southeast Idaho the way New York agents treat the Upper East Side — with reverence, with knowledge, and with the conviction that this place deserves a real estate practice that matches its potential.
Today, the team has crossed 1,000 closed transactions and $500 million in lifetime volume. We've represented first-time buyers stretching for their starter home, second-generation farmers selling family land, INL engineers relocating from across the country, BYU-Idaho families upgrading after graduation, Island Park cabin owners listing legacy properties, and luxury buyers acquiring estates that needed the cinematic treatment to find the right audience. Every one of those clients got the same standard. That consistency — across price point, across property type, across the lifecycle of the transaction — is what we mean when we say we market every property like a brand.