We managed to get ourselves in a sort of real estate drama situation… partly because we are ignorant of local customs in the property trade and partly because everyone wants to keep their hand in the pot…

Here’s what happened… we were scouting for office space on behalf of our employer, we went to the property in question just to have a look at the outside. An agent was there waiting for another client and he obliged us to have a quick look around. He opened the door, we went in and had a look for less than 5 minutes…

We’ve since expressed interest in this property. And now the agent who opened the door for us on that occasion, he turned out to be the seller’s agent, thinks he’s entitled to the full commission including the buyer’s agent’s commission… which cuts out our agent who has shown us loads of properties… who we want to represent us in the transaction…

Our agent for some reason seems to have relented to this, which we don’t understand… We haven’t made a fuss about it. But I think we will because we won’t pay extra to compensate our agent so this guy gets double commission for doing basically nothing…

His argument is that he showed us the place first… But we told him then that we already had an agent going in… He doesn’t speak English, so, our poor Spanish skills are partly to blame here.

We are loyal to our agent because that’s the way we feel we should conduct ourselves. I think we can get this guy, the seller’s agent, to relinquish his silly claim on our agent’s commission. But we’ll see what happens… Anyone, Argentine or otherwise have opinions on this?

Saludos!