In the end master listing agreements are boilerplate and I gues sometimes the bank just rolls with it and wants it closed.
I guess I figure the same. That may be in place for most cases, but maybe they allow themselves to deviate from that. This case happened to be a full price offer 3 days on market, so maybe they met and/or exceeded Net expectations & just went with it. The other agent did not make a big deal about it, just took it as is, so that was not an issue to make the deal happen. Every deal is different, who knows! I figure if I disclose from the beginning there wont be an issue later, who is going to complain about getting paid when not expecting it. Or not having to pay transfer tax. But......, non disclosure at the closing table could result in a horror story!!! My policy is disclose, disclose, disclose! Better safe than so very sorry!