Daddyo
Guru
Don't do this to your broker. Broker's pay their bills, buy food, put their kids through college, buy their own health insurance etc. when they participate in a sale. The rest of the time every single thing they do or spend is uncompensated. Brokers pay to advertise your boat. Brokers pay for access to information ie: Yachtworld. Good brokers drive tens of thousands of miles a year showing boats. Good brokers answer phone calls late into the night and exchange emails at all hours.
I just, as sometimes happens in this business, learned that a client of mine that I have been exchanging emails (104) and phone calls with for two and half years up and bought a brokerage boat without ever saying a thing to me. One of the many disappointments are when you are working with a client and educating them about the boats etc that they then take those dozens or more hours of work and use that knowledge to make a better informed decision without ever seeing that you are compensated. The well found decision then results in the listing broker receiving the commission for the work done by the buyer's broker. The typical response to this type of brutal gut punch is "sorry I didn't realize".
I just, as sometimes happens in this business, learned that a client of mine that I have been exchanging emails (104) and phone calls with for two and half years up and bought a brokerage boat without ever saying a thing to me. One of the many disappointments are when you are working with a client and educating them about the boats etc that they then take those dozens or more hours of work and use that knowledge to make a better informed decision without ever seeing that you are compensated. The well found decision then results in the listing broker receiving the commission for the work done by the buyer's broker. The typical response to this type of brutal gut punch is "sorry I didn't realize".
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