>>20939000In theory, they take their cut in exchange for spending time interacting with the other party, legal, insurance, government. There's lot of paperwork involved, and lots of time and energy spent showing the property to prospective buyers. You are also buying their expertise - they know what kind of clauses should be included in the contracts to avoid any non-obvious gotchas.
All of this in theory of course. Most realtors are bad.
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