When I bought my place my realtor showed me about 60 places over the course of several months and actually talked me out of making an offer on a couple.
The offer I signed off on didn't include the hot tub. An oversight on both our parts, but he called the seller and bought me the hot tub no questions asked. That probably took him down to making 8G, and call it 2 hours per showing, plus 20 hours for the house I bought, and he's sitting at just a $50 something an hour. And I could have decided to not buy any place and he would have gotten zero....
Right now I think it looks like easy money, but there are periods where those guys starve, and the good times are all part of the job, just as the bad times are.
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