Question regarding broker contract.

[Todd C.]

Hey all--

Making some headway on selling my landlord's property. If my GF and I can get the listing, our real estate career would be off to a great start! That said, my landlord is Chinese and doesn't speak English very well so it's been a struggle with the language barrier to say the least.

I spoke to him on Friday and printed out some key words in Chinese, mainly pertaining to signing a broker contract. His response, at least what I think he said, was that he trusts me and wants to meet the interested parties however, he believes he has a contract signed with another brokerage. Needless to say, I'm concerned with how this could work. I am going to be allowed to sell his property? This can't be the only situation where this has ever happened so I'm interested to see how this type of situation would work -- split commission with other broker or what?