Broker Fees Need to be paid by Owner

Moving to Boston... Never before seen these Broker Fees.

They are bullshit. Not a thing anywhere else I have lived.

Owner usually pays these sort of fees or a bit of the rent is paid to the realtor over a specific time period. NOT THE TENANT. A "broker" / realtor is saving the owner from having to deal with people... but not really doing anything for the renter who aren't choosing to use a broker and are forced to go through a broker to view the house. So the people with enough $$$ to rent out their spare homes get to have their convenience fee covered by the folks too cash poor to own property.

And apparently yall have let this happen for almost a decade. This should be DE-NORMALIZED!

Stop paying broker fees. Realtors should not be getting 3k+ just for answering a phone call and sending a few emails anyway. Someone actually finds me the place, drives me around, pays for my hotels and meals; Then sure, they can get 1 month broker fee. Otherwise we will be finding a place without them and letting the ones with broker fees know exactly why we aren't moving there.

rant over.