Real estate agents are the scum of the earth

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Imitation ones are worse.

Ray

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Mine wasn't. She was very professional and helpful.
Brian

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What that you need a hyphen between the first and second words?

Ross Howard

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Real estate(-)agents or real(-)estate agents? (If the latter, is this yet another attack on Dena Jo, Chuck?) I don't know anything about real(-)estate agents but, in England (Scotland is different), estate(-)agents act for one party, are expected to pretend that they act for the other party as well, and it is from this apparent (and sometimes real) con

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Re: English estate agents
[nq:1]Nor is it really their fault, as individuals, that, no matter what the outcome of a house sale, they will always appear to be amoral dimwits who have been handed a licence to print money.[/nq]
There's a big pondial difference, though: when was the last time someone in NAmer got away with 1% to 3% of the selling p

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[nq:1]Re: English estate agents[/nq]
[nq:2]Nor is it really their fault, as individuals, that, no ... dimwits who have been handed a licence to print money.[/nq]
[nq:1]There's a big pondial difference, though: when was the last time someone in NAmer got away with 1% to 3% ... has that changed? There'd be riots if estate agents banded together and agreed to cha

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[nq:2]There's a big pondial difference, though: when was the last ... banded together and agreed to charge that in the UK.[/nq]
[nq:1]It looks like 6% is the going rate around here, but my local RE dude hinted that he might take ... price. I mean, really! It would take only three sales per year to make a living wage and then some.[/nq]
Six percent is for when the seller a

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[nq:2]It looks like 6% is the going rate around here, ... per year to make a living wage and then some.[/nq]
[nq:1]Six percent is for when the seller and buyer and represented by the same agent...if different agents are involved, it goes to seven, the better to split the commission, my dear..[/nq]
Apparently not in these parts. In fact, my dude said that if I a

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[nq:2]Resolved, that (real) estate agents are somewhat higher on the ethical continuum than used car dealers, and at approximately the same level as ballroom-dance instructors..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, mine does bring me a tomato plant each year, a little plastic flag for the front lawn around each ... I, however, am fairly certain that I can do the deed much more cheaply, if and w

[nq:1]It looks like 6% is the going rate around here, but my local RE dude hinted that he might take ... price. I mean, really! It would take only three sales per year to make a living wage and then some.[/nq]
Isn't the commission split four ways? Half to the listing company, and half to the buyer's agent's company? And the agents receive half of the half?