To me, that is extremely critical.

Offer the agent 5%-6% to be paid evenly per side.

I recently had an offer accepted for my first multi-family property!

The deal attracted multiple offers, and we initially got outbid.

Anyone that has sold items privately would have countered any offer. 

Our primary property management partner oversees more than 200 of our clients' properties and offers MTR management at competitive rates (I do not receive any referrals btw).

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they usually say stick it in the bank.. so you can offer them a nice return above bank CDs and on an asset they already know and like etc..

. --- They will offer to fix them in exchange for lower rent, but ask yourself, if the tenant has been living there for 25 years, why isn't everything fixed already?

Slightly increased the offer to quickly go under contract, but still had inspections and everything done before completing the deal.