In general, the major brokerages are somewhat greedy and they would prefer to keep both sides of the commission "in house", so before any new listing is posted to a site like LoopNet, Costar or Crexi, it is passed internally to every other broker in the office and then within the intranet for that company, to see if anyone has a party to do the deal with.

It's possible that they heard a little bit too much from the fair housing commission and are now considered a "professional tenant"Usually these people will not listen keep withholding payment, and take advantage of the system as much as possible.

@John Larson I wonder if it is worth calling the state or federal Securities and Exchange commissions. 

What that commission is doesn't matter at all.

I gave my portion from the commission so nothing out of pocket for me. 

Any deviation from in-kind materials will need to be approved by the historic commission.

That doesn't really matchup with what the IRS says regarding commission rebates.Even if I have the commission on a 1099....if I rebated that commission to a client I know I can deduct that rebate as an expense.

I've always seen a disclosure in rental lease by property management saying "This lease form has not been approved by the Colorado Real Estate Commission.

Or Realtors who have great contractor relationships and in this tight market control their inventory.. they get commission coming and going and a profit bonus.... this is what my goals are for my ground partners.. and so who cares what I make or how much fo the deal comes to me for doing NOTHING...

But there are companies out there , they operate by quoting extreeeeeeemly high prices , their salesmens commission is based on the profit on the job .