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[quote=Anonymous]I posted a while ago about my landlord deciding to sell the house we are renting. The LL/owner is working with a realtor and commission is reduced if the house gets sold to us before it is listed. This makes sense because the realtor would have to do almost NO WORK, mainly just paperwork and a couple emails/phone calls, if we buy the house. We decided to make an offer, albeit a low one, and the seller rejected it (came back to us with a counteroffer, 10k below
asking). We had assumed that the realtor would make about 2% (seemed more than reasonable) and factored a 4% savings into our offer in addition to a little more for issues we know would need to be fixed in the home. We aren't using an agent and can't unless we pay out of our own pocket. After our offer was rejected we found out that the realtor would actually still get his 3% commission if we buy the house plus an additional 1% for doing the buyers side paperwork. WTF?! He gets a bigger  comission for doing way less work?! Realtor has been very nice, honest, blah blah, throughout this process, but this seems so shady to me! Do we have any grounds to pushback on what he would get? I don't think so since the agreement is between the realtor and owner. Also, owner has never been in touch with us and only communicates with us through PM or realtor, so as much as Id love to have a conversation with him, it's not really an option. Should we counter or just give up and hope that whoever buys the place is kind to us for the rest of our lease?[/quote]

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