[quote=susanyang]I never ask my clients to sign exclusive buyer broker agreement. I have had five clients bailed out on me since I started working as a Realtor in 2007. I must not be cut out for this business.[/quote]

susanyang, this only happened to me ONCE, prior to the institution of the buyer-broker agency agreement. I worked over 150 hours for a buyer who purchased a property I initially showed him from another agent. I can’t say how here, but he got his Karma in the end. Since this agreement was instituted, I have insisted on using it when I have worked with buyers. I would NOT work with a buyer if they didn’t give me at least 90 days. If they balked and went with an agent who will not require this, so be it.

There’s a saying that one out of every five Californians possess a RE license so we’re all “bumping into each other.” Of course, there are WIDELY varying degrees out there of competency, experience and expert knowledge of inventory, tracts, subdivisions and areas.

The most established agents in my area not only have a bilingual staff and/or bilingual buyer’s agents working under them, they will NOT agree to list a property until the owner agrees separately to use THEIR referrals to clean and/or stage it prior to putting it on the MLS. Two of my “pack-rat” neighbors have recently been turned down for listings.

To each his own. Some RE clients don’t care about the agent’s competency, they just want to give their business to a good friend or relative.