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OP, why would you choose to work with a salesperson, when you should easily be able to engage a broker?
Why be sold when you could be consulted?
Why assume that agents press the price point, when it usually is the buyer who moves things into a higher price range? Buyers who cannot find what they want in the current inventory are the ones who say, "Let's raise the ceiling on the search." And they are the ones who call me about the house that is 5% to 15% over the hard cap they have given me, which cap I respect.
If you want to leave a mark on the market, find a mission in buyers paying their agents directly, without the artifice of passing funds through multiple sets of hands, and across the table to return to their buyers agent, with the ability to plainly finance buyer agent fees in the mortgage as a buyer expense on the HUD1 just as we do now with the listing agent fee with the buyer agency fee included and earmarked.
Cutting the "Buyers agency is free" crap would do more people more good than playing games with a commission as now commonly constructed.
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