Types of Partnership Agreements between CRE Brokers?
Just curious, I just started with a big Brokerage firm, and notice that different brokerage teams operate in different ways. Some team split their fees across the board, while others are more independent.

Are there types of partnerships or brokerage teams? Do they sign an agreement?
[{"id": "coko9w6", "text": "I worked for CBRE on a team and never signed an agreement. It would just be agreed upon after getting the deal done. Whoever procured the deal or did the most work on it will take a larger share. \n\nYou have to trust the people you are teamed up with, and sometimes you might feel your cut is unfair. If that happens you go to the manager and tell them you don't want to be on the team anymore. And then you can work on your own, which you should learn to do anyways. The people who get screwed the most in the industry are the ones who never learned to do the whole process on their own. The senior guy on my team told me that when he was younger he was basically just taking cuts on deals with his team for a long time and never learned to cold call or find business very well. Then the team blew up and he was stuck scrambling to find his own business because all the clients he had worked with previously were clients of his senior partner, not his. It was a major set back to his career.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "col7o4u", "text": "I've never worked on a large team but have worked in several partnerships.  \n\nSome were more formal than others.  One we had a formal agreement between us in regards to what our splits would be.  He was the senior agent (I was literally brand new) and it was mainly his clients, so he got the bigger cut.  In the event I brought the client, it was even.  Splits with our broker were combined (ie our transaction volume was handled as 1 entity when hitting volume commission levels).\n\nI've done other things with that agent since we and generally just talk to each other.  I co list various things with various other agents for a variety of reasons (maybe they have particular expertise I don't, or maybe I have some they don't.  Maybe they live very close to a listing and I am an hour away.).  Typically what happens is they call me or I call them and say \"hey I have this project, want to work on it?\" then we split even.  \n\nI let a junior agent work my listings once (again brand new, you kind of pay your dues in this industry when you are brand new) and they got much less than half.  They also did mainly the grunt work and received a lot of value in learning (like I did when I worked with the senior agent).  We didn't have an agreement written or anything but we understood the terms.  \n\nI'm not really sure why you are asking this, if you want specific help maybe share some more.  I'd say a lot of this is more informal than formal, and case to case, at least with partnerships.  If you are working on something long term involving a team where its all your business and income?  Then yeah I'd want that shit spelled out in an agreement.", "replies": [{"id": "col8vge", "text": "Just asking out of curiosity - Im an entry-level analyst and want to eventually dive into brokerage within the next couple of years. \n\nSeems to be a common sense that everything is informal, casual agreements. Have you ever experienced, or witnessed, someone taking advantage of the informal nature of these agreements when it comes to commission splits. (i.e. \"we never got it in writing, I am going to screw you now\"). I can see this happening on one-time, big deals.", "replies": [{"id": "col9b3b", "text": "No.  Not over money anyhow.  I've had some pretty good arguments over other things.  As an example when I was new with the senior agent we had a client that was dumping a lot of work on us and wasn't actually closing anything.  By us I mean me, because it was bitch work that took a lot of time but wasn't that complicated.  I felt the senior agent didn't care because he didn't have to do it so he enabled the client when I thought we should tell him basically things he was asking for were outside of the scope of our services.  Anyhow that argument didn't go well.   We wound up pissing each other off and in front of my managing broker.  Ultimately every listing is his, and its his company, so he decides.  In the end the managing broker dealt with it, we both apologized for being assholes to each other and that was that ;)  we continue to be friends to this day.\n\nI've not dealt with anyone just really wanting to fuck me hard I guess because we didn't sign a document.  I guess I'd say don't work with folks who you think are capable of that.  At the end of the day though, if there is an issue, thats why you have a managing broker and they are the one who gets to decide.", "replies": [{"id": "col9ggh", "text": "Will keep that in mind, thanks for the advice!", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]