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Peter Figen wrote:
Well, when it's 6%, that's generally split equally between the buying and selling broker but not always, so when my buddy Don takes 2%, the buying broker is still getting 3% so the total is 5%. You're never going to find a combined commission of 2% unless the selling price is astronomical. And in the case if my dad's house, because of my brothers total inflexibility (and his veto vote) I worked behind the scenes to get both sides to give about ten grand or so to, in effect, raise the offer, something that was in all the paperwork but also something that I knew my brother would never read, so that's how we got the sale of that house through in the end.
Don spend literally hundreds of hours at my dad's house while we were getting it ready to sell, on top while a new roof ($90K) was being put on, underneath, bringing in his painters and cleaning crews and more importantly for me, personally helping me clear everything out the week before the new owner's took possession. His three person painting crew plus Don and myself spent ten hours a day for five days getting everything out and into an overpriced storage unit. Of course we paid the painters for their time - and I gave one of them a $5000 dinner table, but all Don charged me for was a rental truck and some incidental expenses, while there was not a single second of help on that account from my brother. And yet, he still bitched about everything, especially the table.
The Range of the Condor has now purchased several hundred acres in the Big Sur area of California as a start in preserving Condor habitat and is currently lobbying congress to expand the current protected area to include most of Los Padres Nat'l Forest all the way to southern Ca. and then back up the southern Sierra range. I believe Don showed me a check from a donor from Carmel for a cool half a million dollars in support of the effort. So far, all I've been able to do is help out on re-doing audio for some fundraising videos that were made. Kinda like Photoshop for audio and just as satisfying. Can we say Izotope RX-8? Yep.
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Wow. Your friend sounds truly amazing. Hundreds of hours of work! I hope that the condors can have their range expandedand and preserved. One of the most endangered birds.
A non profit we've been involved in for years had a piece of property that had been donated. They got an offer but the property several hundred miles away and nobody really knew if the property had much value. I tried calling real estate agents in the area, had a hard time getting them to call me back even. Granted not the best piece of property, and not much if any commission, but it was for a non-profit, and no commission for me either.
That's correct, I guess I'm rusty he gets 2% & the other gets 3% for 5% total. Also one of the better local agents may have been involved with her daughters fiancee trying to scam us out of a house more or less
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