Social media can be a powerful tool, and then good old-fashioned door knocking for listings is a great way to drum up business as well! 

If she's teaching opera singing or drum lessons, or beginning violin - can you imagine the noise problem?

Classic troll behavior in this thread, Karen nails all of the Greatest Hits:- Comes looking for help, starts by belittling a polarizing group of people (realtors) in hopes to drum up support for her cause- deflects any and all blame or responsibility for her situation- quickly realizes that everyone is not on her side- offers support and kindness to those who agree with her plight- constructive criticism or actual actionable advice is met with personal insults, threats of physical violence, and questioning of one's political affiliation- ironically insults the intelligence and/or grammatical shortcomings of 'detractors' in several overly wordy, poorly written, and grammatically unsound posts.- mystical tales of connections with untold wealth and previous successes rendering the opinions/advice of her detractors moot.- continues to be blinded by how her attitude and behavior are the primary cog in this.Me:

And take a deposit and pet fee, just in case, in line with what's in your ad.As for the fire pit, I'm envisioning lots of pot and a drumming circle LOL.

This should drum up some interest of people who know they are going to be moving, and shorten your re-lease time as you should have a pool of interested parties by the time they are ready.  

And then there's parents yelling at the kids, and kids yelling at each other, and the kids' stereos and maybe drum sets and friends hanging around, and bouncing balls off the garage doors......  

Originally posted by @Bonnie Laslo:Divorce attorneys :) ....you totally prospect divorce lawyers to drum up refis, don't you?

When my daughter fired them, and threatened to sue so they forfeited the clause in the lease saying she had to pay them the fee you're talking about - they offered my daughter's tenant another property that they managed.So, they were expecting to collect full management from my daughter for firing them, then put my daughter's tenant into another property, where they probably got paid to evict the last tenant that they themselves put into place.And the tenant they found for my daughter were problem tenants, and they knew it, and they were ready to put them into another owner's rental, where they planned to let this complaining tenant continue to make them money on all of the maintenance calls this tenant was likely to drum up.So, my answer to your question - sure it's standard. 

Some cities, counties, states - allow you to file a small claims court action online or via fax.My thinking is, that you sue them for fraud or mismanagement or whatever you can drum up - up to the max you can sue them for.  

I do not believe this to be true, incidentally, I think agents just want a) busy open houses to drum up future clients and b) to be able to brag about their high % that go for more than asking (convincing a home seller to list low is way easier than actually adding value to the transaction) when trying to get future clients to sign listing agreements.