administrative fees: The Real Estate Admin/Transaction/Whatchamacallit Fee. Let's Just Call a Pig a Pig Shall We? - 05/27/10 02:28 PM
About a year ago, I wrote a post for the Virginia Association of Realtor's blog, VAR Buzz, about these real estate "fees".  I got in a lot of hot water over my "opinion" and toned it down a bit.  But, today, I heard something that made my blood boil.
One of the largest real estate companies in the United States recently hired an outside consulting firm to conduct a compensation study with their agents.  Know what the #1 complaint among the agents was?  It wasn't the agent split nor the outdated office equipment; it was the company forcing the agents to … (94 comments)