Real Estate agents are almost all bad.

This is a good read. Most real estate agents are bad.

http://allrealtorssuck.blogspot.com/

http://www.realtorsucks.com/2009/06/may-20-2009-search-engines-and-mls-d...

Real Estate (sales) used to be old housewives' industry. With the real estate bubble during the early to mid 2000's you get tons of people who just want to get rich quick. Real Estate sales attract the wrong crowd.

Anyone under 50 years old should really not be in real estate sales. The qualifications to be a realtor was a mere 45 hour course until 2008. http://www.dos.state.ny.us/lcns/realestate/july108req.html

After July 2008, 45 hours increased to a whooping 75 hours. That means a new realtor went to an amazing 1 week (9 hours per day) education! I think my cat knows more about real estate by staring out the window.

Extra 75 was long overdue. This qualifies a person to be a salesperson. Note the course to get a salespersons' license does not cover anything about selling your house. It merely covers what laws not to violate. And the names of parts of a house. Yes, this is where a lot of agents first learn that your house has a soffit. And the part that most realtors get wrong are the math questions. Guess what kind of math? Area of a rectangle!. Yes that's right. Area of rectangles and calculating percentages actually gave exam candidates the most amount of trouble.

The requirement to be a broker is only a few more years of experience and selling a few houses or rentals.

For someone in the position to negotiate one of the larger chunks of your moneys, it is pretty absurd in how little qualifications a person need. That's why real estate sales attract all the bad people.