As in any profession there are good and bad apples in the real estate broker world.

If you are taking the time to read this then you may be one of the unfortunate souls who listed your house with a "bad apple" real estate agent.

The problem with many agents is that they never really go all out trying to sell any one house.  After all, if you had a computer sitting in your office loaded with thousands of nice, beautiful houses of all shapes, sizes, and price ranges... what kind of real "selling" would you actually do?

Would you really do whatever it takes to sell one particular customer's house?  Or would you pick out a selection of several houses for your prospective buyers, hoping to land them on one... any one... of the many homes you had selected? 

Come on... you'd go with the numbers.  After all, you don't have any personal liability if the seller's house sits an extra week or two... and there's always the next customer.  And the next listing.  But then, you're no real estate agent, either.

The vast majority of training for new agents isn't in the art of selling, but in the art of getting listings!  Unfortunately for sellers, giving an agent  the listing is worthless unless the agent finds a buyer.