There is a lot of confusion surrounding commission advances among real estate professionals. What are they? Who gets them and why? What’s the catch, if any, involved? This lack of familiarity has at times lead some agents to make assumptions that simply are not borne out by the facts. We call these assumptions ‘myths,’ not because the concerns are without merit. Just that the explanations provided by some have been so far off the mark that we wonder how they arrived at those conclusions. So what better way to explain …