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What happens if you're unhappy with your real estate agent? What are the responsibilities of a real estate agent? What's the best way to find an agent? A few questions about working with real estate agents when buying or selling a home.

If you own several rental properties, should you put them under one corporate umbrella? Ilyce suggests getting a good real estate attorney and figuring out the best way to protect your real estate investment in these rental properties.

When you're selling your condo and the sale falls through who gets the deposit that the home buyer put down? Whether the seller or the real estate agent gets to keep the deposit depends on what the real estate commission agreement states. It's also up to the seller to decide whether his real estate agent put enough effort forth to deserve some of the deposit for his or her time.

When you're buying a home you should have at least one home inspection that includes a look at the septic system. What's found during that home inspection including the septic system depends on the caliber of home inspector you hire. If you discover problems with your septic system after the home inspection and after you've taken possession of the home, it may be a case of inadequate seller disclosure and you may be able to sue the seller for not telling you about the septic system problems.

Good morning! Here's what we're talking about on today's Ilyce Glink Show:

• Unemployment rolls soar to 5 million. A record number of laid-off people are now receiving unemployment benefits at the same time. Last week, new jobless claims hit 627,000.

• Wholesale inflation prices surged unexpectedly in…

Check out all the laws and requirements if you're buying rental property out of state. Owning rental property out of state can be a good investment, but just make sure you have a list of rules and requirements. Owning rental property out of state means you won't always be able to get to your investment property if something goes wrong.

Here's what we received in media briefing papers from the White House:

Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan Executive Summary

The deep contraction in the economy and in the housing market has created devastating consequences for homeowners and communities throughout the country.

• Millions of…

Gabriel called the show this morning. He's a car dealer who has been in the business for 20 years.

"The problem I see is lot of people don't educate themselves before buy a vehicle. Cars don't have a 50 percent markup," he told me this morning.

On American-made cars, there is an 8 to 9 percent markup…

New week, new president. Today on the show we talked about the inauguration and how the stock market dived about 4 percent that day -- the most on any inauguration day ever. Why? It had little to do with Barack Obama being inaugurated and a whole lot to do with the Royal Bank of Scotland's numbers.

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A homeowner has a new mortgage that has already been sold to a loan service company with a terrible reputation. There is no way, unfortunately, to change loan service companies unless you refinance your mortgage. You'll want to keep a close watch on the new loan service company to keep you and your credit protected.