JJ wrote: "the $40k that goes to agents at the end of an average sfr north county transaction."
sdr, you wrote: The average transaction is somehwere between 600K and 700K. The average commission rate is 2.5% to each broker. That is 15,000 to 17,500 to each broker.
I'm not seeing a whole lot of difference between what he wrote and you are writing. It is still +/-40k that the seller isnt keeping! Besides, he didnt say "each" agent.