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I like my current agent. She alone has got us a ton of traffic in September/October. After signing with her, I talked to some of my other friends in the business (should have done it the other way around), but it turns out she is one of the top realtors in the area. We're paying her to get bodies through the house, something we failed at as a FSBO.

Yes, we are competing with foreclosures, but our house is also in much better shape then they are. We're hoping to find a buyer that doesn't want to deal with a fixer-upper.

For the record, there are reputable no-service realtors in town as well, but they aren't generating any traffic for their clients, which was part of the decision to go full service.

We have also seen an across-the-board drop in home prices (which sucks, because we WERE NOT part of the run up--we were seeing 3% a year appreciation when SoCal was seeing 25%). We've cut our price about 12% from where we started so far, and have room to cut more. The physical reality is that we don't fit in the house, and a baby will only make that worse.