I have thought about getting a brokers license in a single licensure State and then coming back to Maine to take the Brokers test to get around the whole issue, but I feel I would be missing out on the valuable experience that a seasoned agent could share with me.

. :)I'm happy to tell the whole story once I receive the official letter from the IRS (a couple weeks), but long story short, I moved a large chunk of my retirement funds into a self-directed product offered by a relatively large financial company.

You need to know a whole lot more about someone's personal circumstances.

Then, I find that other questions I am interested in asking I prefer to hear the answer in person so I can evaluate their body langauge.

If he's whole saleing, I'm guessing he actually has no money and simply wants to lock the property up while looking for a real buyer.

That is what I attempted to do, but the main listing agent looks at us like we are contagious & has a sort of negative jerky body reaction to low cash offers.

To pull them off you will have to bring a whole new focus to your business strategies.

Last house I sold I had to completely treat whole house and unattached garage because they found them in a tree stump by the garage.

I'd rather not go through the whole eviction procedure but if that is what it takes...As for the non-permitted unit, I can ask the guy.

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