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What is hard is that you can't really separate the wheat from the chaff until you've signed the contract and started working with an agent. This from a recent buyer whose buyer's agent did a great job representing the seller of our current home. [/quote]

Of course they did. A buyer's agent is in name only... they know where their commission check is coming from.

70% idiots, 25% crooks, 5% ethical and helpful professionals - that's about my experience. [/quote]

Realtor and my experience too [/quote]

+1, and I am a realtor as well.  I am consistently amazed by the poor service in this field.  I just sold a 1.5 million dollar home, and the buyer's agent let the radon contingency lapse.  We are not jerks, so we still allowed them to do the radon test, but they ended up paying for it themselves, as well as the mitigation.  Her laziness cost them $1000, just like that.  Every time I called her, she was "out to dinner" and could never talk to me.  What?  If I am out to dinner and you send me a counter offer for my clients to initial, I'm getting up from dinner and getting some initials so we can get the house! Her clients lived in Potomac, and she was on the older side, but she had NO HUSTLE whatsoever.  The younger agents have some hustle, but no experience.  Most Redfin agents that I have worked with (and I bought my third investment property with Redfin) are the worst.  The realtor I worked with didn't even own a home - I was teaching her stuff (it was at that point that I got my own license).  Personally, I am a licensed attorney, I own multiple properties, I am a landlord, I have built properties from the ground up, and when it comes down to it, I just have a great instinct for real estate and truly love doing it.  I have a lot of hustle and am a bit of a bulldog, and that is why I have successful buyers in this crazy market.  I'll never forget a listing agent saying to me, "we had a better offer, but because you were so responsive and professional, we went with you guys."  My listings are cleaned, staged, professionally photographed, and marketed beautifully.  I don't understand why some (MANY) realtors allow such crappy photos of their listings.  [/quote]

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