Never Accept Boiler Plate

When selling your house, you will enter into a listing agreement (a contract) with your Agent. This contract is in place to ensure that if an Agent is spending time and resources marketing your home, when your home sells, they are entitled to their commission. This is the place for you to negotiate terms with your Agent. 

Talk through who will pay for expenses: photography, fliers, staging, inspections or landscaping as examples. Consider a tiered commission structure, so your Agent makes more money the higher the house sells for. Interview several realtors and ask them all the same questions. Their answers, and even just their willingness to have the conversation will tell you all you need to know about what it will be like working with them and having them represent your best interests.