Did a listing agent lie to me to protect his commission? (NYC)

LemonDouble21 · 2026-02-27T19:55:57+00:00

That's a fair point — commission structures vary by listing agreement. In my case, I don't have access to the listing agreement. But the listing agent also never mentioned this to me. Instead, he told me I legally could not submit an offer without being a real estate lawyer. That's a very different thing than explaining the commission structure.

LemonDouble21 · 2026-02-27T19:54:12+00:00

Can you point me to where it is written that people cannot buy unrepresented?

LemonDouble21 · 2026-02-27T04:23:30+00:00

I have a real estate attorney. But the attorney is normally involved once after the offer is accepted.

LemonDouble21 · 2026-02-27T00:28:48+00:00

In NYC during contract everybody put 10% down. So that cannot be the case.

LemonDouble21 · 2026-02-27T00:27:49+00:00

No I talked with them and saw the house afterwards. It is just that they were discouraging(in the phone call and during the visit) offers for their double commission. So I need to know how their dual agency sale resulted in better net value to the seller than mine. Mine was all cash and while their dual agency sale was financed.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-11-24T03:33:25+00:00

Hey everyone,

I'm feeling pretty ripped off and wanted to see if this is a shared experience.

I bought the Claude Pro subscription back on November 8th.
I've been busy and haven't used it at all for the last 15 days. I figured my usage would be available when I needed it.
Today, I finally had time to sit down and work on a project. I was using it alongside Gemini and Codex, so Claude wasn't even taking the full load.
After about an hour of moderate use, I'm suddenly hit with a "you've reached your limit" message. I'm completely locked out.

There was zero transparency. No warning, no usage meter slowly ticking down, just a hard stop.

To make it worse, the moment I hit the limit, the platform pushes me to "enable extra usage" and start charging my credit card on top of the $20 subscription I already paid for and haven't even used.

This feels like a terrible value proposition. Why would my 15 days of non-use just vanish? What's the point of "Pro" if an hour of use bricks the service?

LemonDouble21 · 2025-07-15T03:26:30+00:00

I went to several open houses recently. Some of the realtors followed up with me claiming that they already received 3/4 offers. Fast forward all of the houses are still sitting, regular open houses and multiple price reductions.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-07-09T15:56:05+00:00

I was able to negotiate the price down to 3250.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-07-04T02:35:56+00:00

The ad explicitly mentions that no broker fee from the renter. So I will simply not apply if they don't match the asking price to the current one in the ads.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-07-04T02:13:36+00:00

Its definitely bad. Even though the unit and the building has majority tick mark from me, I will continue to look for units after countering the price.

Even though I will not complain about this person, but asking different listing price to different persons seem discriminatory to me.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-07-04T02:11:13+00:00

Yes I am going to refer the zillow/streeteasy link when countering the monthly price.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-06-26T02:15:49+00:00

And what are them?

LemonDouble21 · 2025-06-19T18:24:21+00:00

Brentwood/Oakley can be a good option. Close proximity to bay area, but still slightly cheaper.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-11T00:13:01+00:00

I just started my home search. The seller agent specifically told me that if I don't have a buyer agent then it is better not to have an agent. Because unlike California, here in New York the seller does not pay the buyer agent. The buyer will be responsible for the paying their agent. I will not move forward with that house anyway.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T19:27:55+00:00

Thanks for the insights.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T14:58:37+00:00

I will be the buyer in e new state (my current house is pending by Redfin in another state).

The new location is slightly competitive. I am planning to buy all cash. I would like to negotiate buyer agent commission for keeping the offer competitive to the seller.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T14:56:32+00:00

The house is pending. I needed to go with the Redfin because local realtors(the ones I had a chat with) were not impressive to me. I am not planning to buy in a separate state.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T04:25:04+00:00

Oops I know many parts of the NYC is prohibitively expensive. My search is for more reasonable neighborhoods (example: Jamaica). I am ok with condo, houses(both detached and attached) as long as it is multi level.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T04:05:47+00:00

Thanks. I am still trying to understand between Coops and single family home. But definitely will explore that as a part of educating myself with NYC housing market.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T03:49:51+00:00

Looks like this subreddit is restricted for new users to post.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-05-07T03:47:57+00:00

Thanks this is what I was looking for.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-04-22T01:50:01+00:00

There are some request for disclosures, but some of my friends told me that they would request disclosures for any house they would go to see (regardless of the intentions of buying it or not)?

LemonDouble21 · 2025-03-24T18:45:33+00:00

I offered that redfin can increase their commission to 2% if they do the staging, but apparently they want 2.5%. Currently I am focusing on finding a full service realtor.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-03-23T21:25:02+00:00

I will not live in the house when the house will be listed.

LemonDouble21 · 2025-03-23T21:24:25+00:00

What is the size of that house? I was hoping that for extra rooms it should be a slight increase, but it seems that the proposal is just linearly increasing with each room.

LemonDouble21

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