[TrudyM]

The they, I am referring to is the realtor and his broker as a partnership and I understand that they get half the buyers agent group getting the other half. And I also understand I am paying for all the uninformed people who waste a realtors time, can't decide were to live, unrealistic buyers and sellers et all. However my point is the effort is the same to selling a less expensive house. I sunk extra money in for a higher level as an investment and the realtor will make $24 thousand (80% of ½ of the commission) with the other realtors involved getting the remaining $46 thousand, but I will have made not dollar one and it was my money (and sweat) sunk in the thing. I know realtors spend allot of time and effort on people that bear no fruit, but it just hurts that I have to pay the bill when I am not one of them. I have always listed my houses (we have relocated around the country allot) at or below market so that they sell in 90 to 120 days (usually 30) and I have never taken more than 3 weeks (6 afternoons with a realtor) to find a house in the new location. I do my research and hate paying for those who don’t. As I said I am venting.

And the location angle is true I left that out of my list as we poured our retirement funds into this house because of the location as it has city lights and lake view and is the best school district in the Puget Sound. The Greenwich Ct of Washington State. The plan was to bring it up to the level of the neighborhood and make extra money for retirement (the realtor thought we were brilliant) boy did that backfire. I know it is the economy, but when the economy is down shouldn't the commissions be down also?