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The flip side, if we had listened to our agent's advice we'd not have (1) landed the house we love (2) sold our prior house.

Particularly, on the sale, we kept hearing "wait, you'll get more offers. wait, you'll get more offers. AirBnB investors are going to love this". No other offers turned up.

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Sure, there are great realtors and there are a lot of terrible realtors. A great realtor is worth it.

And the qualification for becoming one is largely liking money, not any sort of training and functional education.

Smart, observant, motivated people generally improve outcomes regardless of what they are involved in. There are amazingly good thieves, con artists and pimps, but is that something we want people pursuing professionally?

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