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RayAmerica says

Conejo …. You are on a site where most of the posters here are radical leftists. They typically hate free market capitalism and hate particularly real estate agents. Their perceived moral superiority comes through on virtually every post. Most of these people, if given a choice, would be divided only on the issue of whether or not all agents should be shot or hung, or in some cases probably both. Have fun trying to talk sense to this crowd. LOL

Ray Again I'm going to try and help you. Consider for a moment a world that is not so black and white. One in which two realities can exist. This black and white zero sum thinking is killing you.
your hate for all which is not like you,.. is sucking your sole. You're holding on to a world with both hands that is an illusion. You're are being lied to. Turn off Fox news turn off Limballs. Let go.

Do some yoga, breath, talk a walk, garden, tell someone you love them. and stop eating that fastfood.

A realtor's never going to know everything about a house, let a lone a neighborhood. I like the idea of using a municipality's bond rating as a way of telling what's going on with finances.

Real estate salespersons historically work for the seller. If you were to have a true buyer's agent (someone who knows a good deal) I would think they'd expect an even higher premium than the seller's agents, who sets a price and then waits. Besides, if a buyer's agent could identify an outstanding property, why, they'd just end up buying the house and selling it back you as their own listing. Anybody else seen this? I've called on homes to find they've been taken only to find out it was the agent I had called who bought the house.

That's kinda why they became real estate agents. Their ethical bond comes after a 3 week course, people are expecting too much from them to behave as lawyers, doctors, or priests. Also to be honest we place too much of the blame on them when we make a poor ecomomic decision. Instead of justifying a home economically, it should be considered a purely EMOTIONAL decision. Treating our homes, neighbors, streets and government as a "dollarable" investment is simply buying the lie. We use rational reasons to justify an emotional need and that's a great way to go broke, emotionally and financially.