I'm an apartment broker in Manhattan. I get paid by both landlords and tenants. Usually, if one is paying me the other is not, but sometimes it happens that I can get paid by both.
That happened recently: I have a client ready to take an apartment and he's agreed to pay my full fee, one month's rent. But today the landlord offered to pay half my fee to encourage my client to close. That's nice but unnecessary, since my client will take the apartment and pay my full fee. Potentially, I could collect a full fee from my client and a half fee from the landlord. Not a bad payday.
From the beginning, the understanding has been that I'm charging a full fee, and my client signed a fee agreement acknowledging this. Do I have an obligation to tell my client about the landlord's offer?
Torn Between Being Nice and Getting Paid, Mike W. Queens
As an almost thirty year old gent nearly finished with four years of graduate school, I am realizing that I have not read for leisure during the majority of this time. Not to say that I regret only studying and following current events, but I feel like this literary gap of nearly five years is potentially debilitating and significantly less gentlemanly.
While a broad question, would the gents be so kind as to suggest some notable books, contemporary and classic, that a gentleman entering his 30's should read upon finishing grad school and entering the world?
I'm an apartment broker in Manhattan. I get paid by both landlords and tenants. Usually, if one is paying me the other is not, but sometimes it happens that I can get paid by both.
ReplyDeleteThat happened recently: I have a client ready to take an apartment and he's agreed to pay my full fee, one month's rent. But today the landlord offered to pay half my fee to encourage my client to close. That's nice but unnecessary, since my client will take the apartment and pay my full fee. Potentially, I could collect a full fee from my client and a half fee from the landlord. Not a bad payday.
From the beginning, the understanding has been that I'm charging a full fee, and my client signed a fee agreement acknowledging this. Do I have an obligation to tell my client about the landlord's offer?
Torn Between Being Nice and Getting Paid,
Mike W.
Queens
Dear Gents,
ReplyDeleteAs an almost thirty year old gent nearly finished with four years of graduate school, I am realizing that I have not read for leisure during the majority of this time. Not to say that I regret only studying and following current events, but I feel like this literary gap of nearly five years is potentially debilitating and significantly less gentlemanly.
While a broad question, would the gents be so kind as to suggest some notable books, contemporary and classic, that a gentleman entering his 30's should read upon finishing grad school and entering the world?
Gratefully yours,
Belated Bookworm