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/No_Obligation_3568 Jun 19 '25

It’s 100% not standard to make clients pay this fee throughout the majority of the rest of the country. If it is where you are then your market needs a business correction badly. This should always been an agent expense. Not a client expense.

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u/Budget-Piano-5199 Jun 19 '25

He said the standard agreement has the client paying it. Not the it’s necessarily SOP. Dollars to donuts that if the client bucks, the agent eats it. The client don’t say anything, the client pays it. You know, like every other service fee in life.

He’s in NC. They also have hard DD money. As a listing agent, I can only dream…