I will look at the property manager contract, but they usually just include a sale clause for collecting a commission and don't say anything about a new owner having to assume the management agreement.I agree with everything you said. 

In this instance the Commission considers the relevant sections of the Fair Trading Act are 9 and 14(1)(b) of the Act9.

It will probably be like realtors.10% of realtors garner 90% of the commissions and the other 90% of the realtors share the 10% scraps left over.

I figure about 2% for sellers closing costs.RE commissions are typically 6%.

The person entering the up receives all or part of the commission in buyer signs on dotted line-no matter who the assisting agent was.

In my area, you can have your realtor set up automated searches that send you emails with properties that meet your criteria; there is very little chance that other investors can be "ahead of you" doing this (the exception would be with office listings / pocket listing / exclusive listings - whatever you want to call it).Why wouldn't that realtor want to collect more commissions?

In many projects you can't even put a FSBO sign out to sell your condo, slaes have to go through them with as much as 15% commissions.

Shoulda passed on the drip system and hired my own labor.The Sale: Sold for 190K but made concessions and after realtor's commission netted 175K at closing so the whole thing was pretty much a wash.

If a buyer had a loan approved and just got cold feet, a Realtor might want a commission, since they did what they contracted to do, so the Realtor has an interest in what the EM might be.

After holding costs, RE taxes, utilities, commissions, etc., we think we will net about $175k if things go according to schedule.