The reasoning the salesperson told me is that these agents would be farming for clients that they can refer to an agent in the Windy City and get referral fees. So, that begs the questions, is this legal? Just skating by maybe?
The bottom line is that there is enough to do for the state licensing examiners and they probably won’t get caught. But what it does is leave the agents in those market out of the direct loop to the consumer and having 25% of their commission stolen and hiding from the consumer that they are dealing with an out of state, unlicensed person that they never wanted to work with in the future.
And you wonder why Congress may put a cap limit on real estate agent commissions.
