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Originally Posted by sweeps
syracusa, I don't understand the problem.
If you're selling, don't hire an agent and say you will not accept a buyer's agent.
If you're buying, don't hire an agent and say you want 3% deducted from the price of the house to compensate for you not bringing an agent to the deal.
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I did suggested we do this; but this is where someone like us, who would otherwise choose this rational path, gets caught in a system where
everyone else chooses to do things differently and uses an agent. If all buyers use an agent (because they rely on the unwritten rule that I, as a seller, will agree to pay half of his/her agents's commission) - then who will I sell the house to?
We thought about doing the SBO thing only and using just such websites but the vast majority of people here go through agents; so you, as a seller, ends up NOT HAVING A CHOICE but to deal with the prospective buyers' agents, like it or not.
So it is not that simple to just say "I will not accept you if you come with an agent" because they all come with agents anyway. And when you have a stake in seeing your house sold (which any seller does), you're just caught in the system.