I think that if you look at the numbers you will find that the moajority of deals are actually above the board so to speak. This is not to say that there are not double ended deals where the agent hand picks the buyer but that is not the standard like you are allunding to. I did a study for someone awhile back on Battiata. You would be surprised how many deals of his are NOT double ended. The fact that a good percentage of his deals end up as expireds or cancelled was a testament to poor processing at his office more then anything else. Elegado does a huge volume of distress deals and same thing with his numbers. I have had both buyers and sellers execute short sales with no problems. sdrealtor has as well.

Go ahead and pick a zip code and a month and I can do the solds for you and lets see how many of the solds were double ended.

Again, there are plenty of problems out there and the system could very easily be improved but there seems to be no interest in doing so. You want a place bad enough you can get one. It is not easy and it is quite frustrating but to say that there is an institutionalized fraudulent system where nothing can get bought is an overdramatization.