You thought the building cost a million bucks, but you forgot about acquisition fees. There was the commission, the bug inspection, the guy who crawled around the roof and under the building, looking at plumbing, pipes, and electrical wires, and another guy who stomped around the roof checking shingles.
You had closing costs, like filings you had to make with the city, and then final construction inspection fees, and other random fees, like the "coffee bar access" fee, and you didn't realize that egress down the hall into the corporate washroom with the fountain cost another five grand. But what could you do? Just hold it all day?
Acquisition fees are some form of commissions, and are just leakage on top of the purchase price of things you can buy.
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finance a la shmoop. what is commission? well it's the greatest motivator for
salespeople in the world. it's the money some people make above and beyond their [ commission explained on a large screen]
salary. a little monetary carrot dangling out in front of a salesperson to you
know encourage them to sell sell sell. alright you're an agent who just sold a
house good for you. you get a 3% Commission. the house went for a million
bucks well you get 30 grand for the privilege or at least your brokerage
does, and then you get some piece of that. ok now you're the stock broker who sold
3 million shares of stock. well good for you
you get four cents a share in Commission 120 grand in the pocket of your
brokerage and you get some piece of that Commission. you're the Hollywood agent[equation]
who just inked Brad pitiful into a movie deal worth 20 million bucks, well good
for you your agency gets a 10% commission or two
million dollars. yeah that's for a Dewey Cheatham and Howe agency best one in
Hollywood. yeah they rep Harvey Weinstein. now for someone who's attempting to sell
a polished version of that Harvey Weinstein story well that's a commission
impossible. [man frowns]
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