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I think there are realtors that are honest/trustworthy. They want to make money, if you over price stuff and it doesn't sell, then they don't make money.

It also behooves the realtor to have the the realty sell for as much as possible because that determines their pay as well.

I find that most of the good ones will recommend a pretty good price to get something to sell.

If you insist on listing too high, you may sit on the market for a while. Then if you eventually drop the price to something reasonable, but people can see 'this property has been on the market forever, and they just dropped their price a bunch' then buyers will often wonder "what's wrong with this property that it's been on the market forever and not sold."