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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
....However the reality is that more and more people are becoming empowered by technology and they don't NEED this type of service. I'd even argue that most of them (speaking for myself) don't even particularly want it. I get a certain amount of satisfaction in researching things for myself, learning about how things work and figuring out the particulars of processes, procedures and established methods of doing things as part of an ongoing life-education process. A lot of my peers feel the same way. We don't need people wiping our butts for us - be it government or someone trying to sell us a "service" for several thousand dollars.
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Without realtors/brokers there is no MLS.
Even if another alternative pops up it needs to be paid for somehow.
So while you may eventually eliminate the "middleman" you won't eliminate costs.
They just get moved somewhere else.