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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's hard for renters to come up with first last
security deposits and the broker's fee of one month's rent.
With the new state law, renters will not be required
to pay that broker's fee if the agent was hired
by the landlord. So how about responding to an ad
that you see online? Bobby Brown with Steve Bremer's Realty
Group in Somerville says.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There would be no fee for a tenant who's reaching
out to a listing agent. The seller would have been
the hiring party. The seller is going to pay.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
With supply low and demand high, it's likely that landlords
may just pass their new added expense onto the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Tenant at two hundred at two hundred and fifty to
the monthly rent, and that's going to make up for
the fee that they have to pay.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Then some it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Going to be more expensive for a tenant necessarily. I
think it's just going.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
To be portioned out better over the course of
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The least from Somemerville's Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio
It's hard for renters to come up with first last
security deposits and the broker's fee of one month's rent.
With the new state law, renters will not be required
to pay that broker's fee if the agent was hired
by the landlord. So how about responding to an ad
that you see online? Bobby Brown with Steve Bremer's Realty
Group in Somerville says.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There would be no fee for a tenant who's reaching
out to a listing agent. The seller would have been
the hiring party. The seller is going to pay.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
With supply low and demand high, it's likely that landlords
may just pass their new added expense onto the.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Tenant at two hundred at two hundred and fifty to
the monthly rent, and that's going to make up for
the fee that they have to pay.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Then some it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Going to be more expensive for a tenant necessarily. I
think it's just going.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
To be portioned out better over the course of
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The least from Somemerville's Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio
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