Funny, I know a fellow who is cutthroat when it comes to his fees and has repeatedly killed deals that tried to get cute with him & undermine his fee. That sai

Funny, I know a fellow who is cutthroat when it comes to his fees and has repeatedly killed deals that tried to get cute with him & undermine his fee. That said, he is a multi millionaire and is usually taken very seriously even if he is just acting as a broker or middle man, largely due to his not taking shit from anyone on his fees. While he can do this, hustlers who don't produce cannot. Now keeping that in mind I'll also say that I've seen numerous deals go down the drain because of greedy intermediaries & brokers who seem to forget that while their involvement did help the deal along, they are not the ones ultimately putting funds at risk.