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Johny Fernandez: What happens
and what can you do if you have

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an unpaid commission?

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Sean Murray: This is a really,
this is a good question. All

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right, so I see this question on
on DailyFunder a lot. What

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happens if you're presumably the
broker. What happens if you're a

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broker, and you got a deal
funded, and the lender or funder

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didn't pay the commission, what
can you do? I think a lot of

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people's first instinct is to, I
guess, go on a forum and

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complain about it. But
ultimately, at the end of the

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day, it's gonna come down to
whatever your contract says. And

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you really have to ask yourself,
one are you first entitled to

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the commission? I know you can
feel entitled. Yeah. But are you

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actually entitled to it? What
does your contract actually say?

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That's gonna play a very big
role, in like, what happens

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next. Yeah. The next thing is,
how big is this commission,

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because if it's very tiny, let's
say it's a couple 100 bucks, you

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know, the, the recourse you're
gonna have is very little, it's

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too little to sue over, just the
retaining in a lawyer is gonna

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cost more than a couple 100
bucks. So you're not gonna be

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able to pursue someone legally,
if they didn't pay you a few

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$100. Unless you wanna take them
to small claims court, which I

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suppose you could do, you could
take someone to small claims

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court, if you're entitled to a
few 100 bucks, or I guess even

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even a little bit more than
that. But besides, besides that,

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besides any type of legal
recourse, you know, there's,

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there's really nothing there,
it's very important and people

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say it all the time is to, is to
rely on the relationships you

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form with people in the business
itself, so that you're not in a

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position where after the fact
you're like, so and so didn't

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pay me. And all I can do now is
just complain about it on a

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forum, and then you start asking
about who they are and if anyone

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else had the same experience,
you should have already done

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that beforehand, figured out who
they were and if anyone had a

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poor experience beforehand, you
don't want to end up in that

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situation before. So if you're a
broker and you didn't get paid a

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commission. Your your only your
only option is if the amount is

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large enough, you can sue, if
it's very small, I suppose you

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could go to small claims court.
And then the other option is

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take it as a lesson learned.
Never work with that company

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again and move on and work with
somebody else.