DEAR BOB: As a Realtor, I am annoyed by your constant put-down of real estate agents and brokers, especially regarding unnecessary junk fees, as you call them. It seems all right with you for the public to negotiate the sales commissions charged to sell their properties. Sellers offer us 3.5 percent or 4 percent. "If you don't take it, the next agent will," seems to be their thinking. Why then can't my agents attempt to recapture some of that lost revenue by negotiating a transaction fee or administration fee? Stop trying to make us agents the bad guys.  more...