“As far as the assistant, if they are licensed, then they are permitted to do transactions. Lots of the big-name teams classify their licensees as assistants even though they do much of the work.”

Just to clarify on something UR, if you are an assistant and pay the lower fees as an assistant, it does not matter if you are licensed or not, you will have access to the MLS but you will not be able to have your names on any transactions, buy or sell, on the MLS. SDAR is highly compelled to enforce the pricing policy as it is defined. That is, if you are a licensee and you intend to perform transactions for that broker, you are supposed to pay your full MLS dues. Generally assistants are classified and defined as people who assist brokers with more “office work” rather then transactions. While this may include running comps and performing support work for transactions the “INTENT” of the lower pricing structure is defined to be for true assistants. Yes an assistant may have a license but why would a licensee want to go through the trouble of being licensed to do transactions by getting licensed yet only be an assistant.