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Originally Posted by ken0042
Just to clarify; if you are looking to buy a house for the first time, you don't pay any realtor fees. Your Realtor gets paid by the person who is selling the house. When you go to sell the house; that's when you'll find that you pay both realtors.
So for the first time, make sure you find somebody who is going to work for you. Even go so far as to interview realtors and make sure they understand what it is that you want. I talked to a couple of them before going with the one that found my house for me.
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Usually what will happen is that if you hire a realtor to find you a property, and there is already a realtor for a property you want to buy, usually that realtor will be nice and split the commission with your realtor (maybe not evenly, depending on how much work that realtor feels he did versus yours). In calf's case, since his father would be working for free, he could decide to put in a lower bid for the property, saying that because his father is working for free he can lower the price since more of the money is going to the seller. But the other realtor might get upset at that, because it reduces his commission.