Does the owner of a real estate office deserve a commission on an apartment that its owner transferred to another tenant after it had been listed with him?
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The office owner is not entitled to take a brokerage fee from you, because you did not find the apartment through his mediation. Rather, he has the right to demand it from the building owner if custom grants him this right when bringing a tenant whom the building owner was not pleased to rent to.
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