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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]23:53 clarifying before all you DCUM sharks come blubbering that we're wasting our realtors' time: 
Yes, we're picky and we told our realtor that we are. OP is 100% correct, this is the biggest purchase of our lives. We aren't desperate to buy so we'd rather wait and buy a house we're happy with then feel like we got trapped. 
We used to go out looking at houses a lot but we respect our realtor and now only go to look if we are very interested in the house, because we know what we want. We've only looked at houses once in the past 3 months because nothing good has been on the market.

Because of the fantastic and ethical way our realtor has behaved, I want her to get a big fat commission just as I imagine she does.[/quote]

What you're describing is the way it should work. We've bought multiple homes. Each time, we look at a bunch of homes to narrow down what we want, then wait for what we want to come on the market to buy. We recently had to drop a realtor who was pushing us to buy stuff that didn't meet the criteria we provided. She did something else unethical too and that was the last straw, but we would have dropped her anyway because she was wasting our time and only out for her commission.

The best thing realtors could do is to provide useful information. Show comps, point out that here's what a similar home but with a better kitchen and master suite went for. Give us the info we need to make good decisions. So few realtors do this so we end up researching it ourselves.[/quote]

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