Call the references, insist on looking at some completed work.

If there is any way that this agent can prove that THEY were the procuring cause of this employee securing a lease with you, they could be owed a commission.What is more likely (unfortunately) is that the employee took initiative and then brought it to the company, who then insisted that their agent contact you to sure up the details and secure the space.You are not required to pay the agent a commission. 

Even then, an agent can use a non-TREC form or clause if the client insists or if it is drafted by an attorney.

This will help matters when this comes before a judge.I would NOT, under any circumstances, harass, threaten, intimidate, insist on immediate vacancy, or hire two large men with shady pasts and expandable batons to hide in the bushes outside the apartment for an opportunity to put your problem tenants in the hospital.

She insisted that she could not live there while reconstruction was being done.

This would necessitate the construction lender (bank) insisting on being in 1st position and the other loans subordinating, whether wrapped or not.Mr Gulley's thoughts?

I never finished the licensing process, so my license is not "active", (too much CE that i personally found irrelevant) but I kept my relationship with a broker who I split the "commission" with if the selling agent insists, and most agents are willing to decrease the commissions for investor agents.

Will the state send me a bill and then I would call them and explain that its for estate planning, but what if the state still insists on transfer tax?

The town may insist that you upgrade the entire building to meet commercial building codes.

I had to call my own plumber out anyway because I could not wait for AHS.I like the previous poster's idea of not taking on clients who insist on having a warranty.