While completing your paperwork to list your property on Realtor.com as a Showcase Listing, you must state a commission rate that you would be willing to pay to a buyer’s agent if they were to bring you a buyer who purchases your home. You should enter 1%. Stating a commission in the open listing agreement is necessary to enter your property into the MLS. Given that your property will not be searchable by agents in your local area, there is slim to no chance that a buyer’s agent would contact you with the intent to show your property to a buyer. Even in the case that this did occur, YOU RETAIN THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ANY OFFER, and therefore will never be required to pay any commission.