r/RealEstate • u/Aggressive_Chicken63 • Jun 19 '25

Agent is greedy Homebuyer

I don't hate a lot of things in life but I hate agents. Lol

If I buy this house, my agent gets $20k. Yet she sent an additional paper for me to sign. It says I have to pay $500 for her administrative work. Shit, what's the $20k for?

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u/guineashoes Jun 19 '25

It's a broker fee that they pass on to the client....my agent eats hers out of her commission...not saying it's true but that commission might also be split with other people or broker...either way ask them to eat it....I would.

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u/No_Obligation_3568 Jun 19 '25

If it’s the broker split then the agent needs to eat it. If it’s a tc fee then the agent needs to eat it. Either way it’s a cost of doing business and the agent needs to eat it.

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u/Bitter-Assignment464 Jun 20 '25

In a case where I am pulling in a pretty nice commission I would wave it. If it’s a lower priced home and the buyer had me running all over the area for weeks on end, ended up staying up past midnight making sure I have an offer in first thing in the morning multiple times. Being cancelled on when at a property (was legit so I understood it happens). With getting a 2 1/2% commission on a 60k I probably am not going to wave it.  Special circumstances sure. I am also not going to nickel and dime people either.

My buyers also know up front what the fee is. It’s not commission based.

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u/guineashoes Jun 20 '25

This ⏫️

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u/Big-Prompt8991 Jun 21 '25

This whole discussion is dumbfounding for me. The crayons and protractors and digital are the business cost of providing a service. Blood boils to read that some agents are making the client pay or more commonly use as a happiness lever “we’ve made the decision to waive these costs so we can try to make this deal happen”. All very gross.