Saltbreak,
I listen to you and others, and what i say to it is if he needs to take commission, he needs to provide his CR Number, a legal Qatari law to conduct business. These agents work like a mafia, with no insight on how the brokerage and tenancy contract take place. You will be suprised that some of them asking contract and none other than the watchmen of an empty apartment. The issue is legal way of asking commision then they must i repeat must have a agent CR number, and not any grocery CR number