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Nesgroup address: alt.real-estate-agents - Date & Time for the message: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:01:08 -0400 /

Author of the message: "homan4"

Title of the message:
Junk fees

Text of the message:
My broker charges customers (we have no clients as my broker expressly
prohibits this type of representation by his agents) a document storage fee
of $165 per transaction, both sellers and buyers.  The line is "FREC
requires us to store documents for 10 years, and so this is a fee for
mandated compliance."
For buyers the only indication of this fee is on a sheet that claims to be a
good faith estimate of closing costs, the fine print at the bottom implies
that these are all lender originated fees, they are listed in no apparent
order, and the $165 is buried in the middle.  I usually go over each item
with the potential buyer, and undoubtedly they get bored by the 3rd or 4th
item and say something like "I get the picture, this is an estimate, I have
to negotiate for the best deal, what is the bottom line?  Where do I sign?"
The contract we use - either FAR or FARBAR both indicate that I am a



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