When you click for a showing, it gets sent to paid agents or Zillow Flex partners.

@Gene PanicciaManagement fees vary, but it's not uncommon for a PM to charge fees for managing tenant-paid utilities or coordinating repairs.

My $2000 also covers stuff that inevitably break under normal use - I had to replace a washer $700, a stove $600, a microwave $100, and a grill $400, all  within last 2 years, and paid close to $1000 for various service calls by electricians and HVAC techs and pest control. 

Try being an agent, your phone number is EVERYWHERE and you get targeted by a whole industry that wants to sell you the latest gimmick.Here is what helped me.I answer calls and when it's a telemarketer I will interrupt them and say very friendly (because I don't hate the poor person who gets paid to do this and coached to be ruthless): Hey, so glad you called, can you do me a big favor? 

(I work with some challenging populations and the extra effort has paid off in these situations.) 

I’d simply ask in what situations where the broker and the brokers firm did nothing to facilitate the sale do you think you should get paid a commission?

Lenders get paid to get you to the closing table, not to try. 

My father and I just paid cash for a little less than a 2 acre lot in Summersville, WV.

And remember, this is Pre-Covid dollars too!

That loan is being paid off by someone who checks the box on the conventional loan application that they will be occupying the property.