Real Estate - what should we do?

[Nords]

so follow the money, and you'll find the agent's true loyalty. The point is that I wasn't dreaming when I felt from my initial conversation that the buyer's agent wasn't working in my interest. I'd have go to realtor.com to find me a real buyer's agent.

That point was made for me in Malcolm Gladwell's "Freakonomics" where research showed that realtors tended to take more time to get more money for selling their own homes, yet tended to go for lower prices and quicker sales when selling customer's homes.

Apparently they're willing to take a little less on each transaction if they can make it up on volume.