Nothing says you have to, but boy howdy, would the realtors prefer you do. We had negotiated ours down to 1.5%, which I thought was fair, but that was continen

Nothing says you have to, but boy howdy, would the realtors prefer you do. We had negotiated ours down to 1.5%, which I thought was fair, but that was continent on the sellers realtor also accepting a 1.5% fee. The sellers realtor would not accept 1.5%, nor would the sellers reduce the price by 1.5%. Since someone was going to get that 1.5%, I insisted the commissions be matched to be fair to our agent, and the sellers agreed to pay from their proceeds – after a somewhat heated back and forth. It was dumb.