It’s a great question and one that I asked many years ago, which prompted me to get into the real estate business in the first place: Why do real estate agents make so much money? And the answer is so complicated that I can’t do it justice in just one blog post. So I’ll simply scratch the surface here and leave the rest of the issue to other posts like the one where I drew upon the insights of Penn and Teller. I wasn’t really prepared to start addressing this issue now but then I ran across this cute little infographic the other day that attempts to answer the question and I couldn’t resist the need to dispel the myths and lies that it’s propagating. I’ve copied the infographic into the bottom of this post. It was originally produced by Diggsy, which apparently is now defunct, but the infographic lives on in Internet immortality, having been copied and passed around numerous times. Diggsy got pretty caught up in the weeds and missed the big pict...