More pain for tenants who engage leasing agents

THANKS to a rental market that started heating up in the last two years, tenants who use the services of an agent to help them lease a home are now expected to pay these agents a commission. This was not the case in the past, as the tenant’s agent usually shares the commission with the landlord’s agent, who in turn collects the commission from the landlord he represents.

This practice of agents taking a commission from their tenants has…

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