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We have a buyer, do we need a realtor?

So the real answer is yes - we want our realtor to work with us. The real question is Can we ask for her help and not pay her full commission? (without being jerks)

We have a good relationship with our realtor and we reached out to her in the fall about selling our home and a rental property as we are leaving the state. She knew of an investor that might be interested in our rental home, but because of covid (gov restrictions) nothing's happened since that time.

In the meantime a friend said they want to buy our house, have made plans to sell their home and move in.

We still want to work with our realtor, particularly as we have the rental to sell. How do we say that since we have a buyer and won't be showing the property, we'd like to compensate her for document preparation and review? Or do we just ask the realtor to sell the rental and have a lawyer put together everything for the sale of our home?

tl:dr - As a seller how much do we compensate our realtor if we have a buyer already? Or should we just have a lawyer draw up the paperwork?

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