Without writing a 1,000-word post, my feeling is that you may have a harder time going this route as opposed to using a full-service listing agent.First, I think you're prone to get more low-ball offers, because buying agents will think you're not very sophisticated.Second, I think some agents will not work hard to show a flat-fee listing because (1) they think this kind of seller is unreasonable and tough to work with (it's a sign you're trying to milk every dollar from the house), and (2) I think some full-service agents are a little concerned that their high-priced business model is in jeopardy, and they're not going to help anyone who uses a flat-fee service.If you insist on going the flat-fee route, you might consider offering a 4% fee to the buyer's agent (or some other bonus).

Unless a property is in a war zone, they usually won't suffer from any unreasonable amount of deferred maintenance.

Sounds like a really rough area you are renting out in.Syringes and those other details are just gross.I don't know how this property ever could have been deemed (rent-ready) regardless of the finishes.Low finishes to high finishes everyone expects a clean place to move into.The list that was given I don't know a quality renter in any rent range that would move into a property in that shape.I think you definitely do not want anyone moving in there.I don't think the list is that unreasonable.

She said that she believes this is unreasonably high and asked us to do something to ensure future bills are lower.Now, as for whether the bill is higher than what should be expected, I really don't know.

In the past, this has led to abuses by management where they have "calculated" market value in an unreasonable way to inflate their short-term performance.

And $100K offer on a $125K distressed listing in 2011 is hardly an unreasonable offer.

I was just pointing out that the licensing mania has become so extreme that it is not unreasonable to think of licensing with respect to even simple activities.

Why not just make a 3mil offer, get it shot down by the unreasonable owner and move on.

For those seller's agens, what would you do if the seller insisted on a unreasonably high listing price, and were not much negotiable on the sale price?

If you have a signed contract with a sale price agreed and then they spun this on you, I would probably take a tougher stand, as what they are requiring is unreasonable and a notice of lis pendens filed until the case was heard could tie upthe property for months!