If through a listing broker it will depend on what the listing broker entered on the MLS and MLS rules.In Georgia for instance on FMLS if as a broker you screw up and enter commission wrong,mistake things etc. you can be on the hook for the commission or lose access to the MLS.MLS's are sometimes controlled by REALTOR associations and other times are private entities that are non-profits or for-profit organizations.Also the brokers/agents involved it would matter if they were REALTORS or not.Generally your state's real estate commission does not handle commission disputes.They only care about license laws.The agent can argue procuring cause with the other agent but it should not stop your sale.Simply you would close and get your proceeds and the commission in question would be froze until a solution was given and signed in writing or a court order.There are so many variables to this and it is state specific.Procuring cause is a chain of events leading up to a sale of a property.If the chain is broken generally the broker/agents is not due a commission.The moral of the whole story is the buyers agent needs to learn how to protect themselves in the future.I am not going to court to get my agents commission when I only charge them a 300 flat fee as a broker.No legal advice

My 2 tenants have credit scores above 700 and earn a respectable income over $60k each.From what I gather the previous owner got in over his head.

Without them signing on, imo, this doesn't happen.You will also want to get together with the responsible tenants in the area and encourage the start of homeowners associations.

You've shot yourself in the head with that 30 day limit on when you can install a lockbox and start showing.

Are there costs associated with this that you had not considered?

Nick that is funny, he is the first thing that popped in my head when I read the title of the thread.

There's a big difference between poking your head into a crawl space and going in there to look around.

I feel I get plenty of great info from BP and it allows me to step into a real estate lawyers office better armed with knowledge so i dont sit their nodding my head as he speaks not knowing what he is talking about.1.

I have also known lots of condo projects to not have had a special assessment in over 20 yrs.Condos prices are also more depressed in price right now than SFR's or units b/c of the financing issues associated with them.

That's my range.Jon- I'll head over to that other thread and give it my best shot!