[Porsche-O-Phile]

No worries... Sometimes stuff just comes out wrong (I know all about that!)

Anyway FWIW I think there is SOME value to RE services, it's just another service (like many others) that is not weathering the onslaught of networked technology very well as information becomes more and more widely available to more and more people on little devices in their pockets these days...

The other thing to consider (as a generalized statement) is that people are by-in-large getting busier and busier as time goes on. Time is increasingly precious and they don't want to waste it on stupid B.S. sales pitches. I don't care how good someone is, how slick their delivery is and how experienced they are - I know damn well when someone is trying to blow smoke up my ass just to get a sale and it pisses me off to no end. Sure-fire way to get me to walk the hell out (which I've done in the past, rude though it may be I don't see it as any more rude than wasting my time with sales pitches).

The better agents (from my own point of view) are the ones who will research what they can about a place I find or express interest in, then let it "sell itself" rather than throwing out useless comments about "look at how wonderful this is - can't you just see yourself here?" (puke) That stuff doesn't go very far with me. I'm not stupid and I know full well they probably don't know too much more about the property than I do except for MAYBE a quick phone conversation with the listing agent and reading a few extra sentences in the non-public area of the MLS. Being that virtually all sales these days are bank sales anyway, the listing agents seldom know anything about them anyway, since their clients (banks) don't either - or at least claim not to.