[ChicagoConservative27]

I could never do this job. No patience

[bigbob]

I’d scrub their toilet one time and leave a ring of superglue on the seat

[marktwain]

Extreme “service” for extreme profit.

Only sociopaths would act this way. I bet the money was not earned, it was inherited.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

These are the same wealthy leftist elites that like to spout "No Kings!".

I really despise such people.

[9YearLurker]

Buyers are aware that luxury RE brokers in NYC get paid an exhorbitant rate by the buyers, so they look to squeeze what they can out of it.

[Wuli]

If you don’t like a job that makes you an on call servant of other people, for personal services beyond the essential work of the job, then take a different job. On the other hand a lot of your work may come to you by personal recommendations from prior clients, who may not be making that recommendation if you had not gone far beyond the essential work required. Face it, its a morally lousy industry, so either deal with it or get out.

[PGR88]

What’s the real-estate company’s cut, and the agent’s personal commission, on a $10 million sale in NY City?

[Angelino97]

said Simonsen of the Upper East Side private supper club

NYC's Upper East Side was Manhattan's only Republican district in the 1970s.

It was known as the Silk Stocking District. Its people were "Rockefeller Republicans" -- Republicans in the mold of John Lindsay and Jacob Javits.

I don't when it stopped being Republican.

[stanne]

Cry me a river. I do more than that per 20 patients per week as a nurse. And fouler tasks

These guys are making $250 to $400k on a $11,000,000 sale
What do they do that’s more work than a nurse for that.

[Resolute Conservative]

Cry me a river. I have no sympathy for someone who makes a commission like theirs whining about anything.

[Brian Griffin]

Why would anybody pay $10 million to live in NYC?

Many of the townhouses in the Upper East Side are rented out for private school or UN diplomatic use.

[Brian Griffin]

There was a guy who wrote books about various economic sectors in the 1970s. One book was about the housing industry. He wrote that one real estate agent said that the way some clients acted would shock their employers.

My uncle worked at a top-end Palm Beach establishment after WW2. Some of the outrageous behavior can run in a family.

Most wealthy people know enough to treat the help well because they know they need lots of help, but some wealthy people don’t.