To each his own, but I understand your thought process here. Just think how much work a realtor will put into looking for a home for you, driving you around and think of all the expense that is. (It can end up being hundreds of dollars, gas, time etc.) Then you just go and find a home and the realtor sees no money off it.
I wont take someone out more than once unless they sign an agreement, it’s just too taxing now. But I will work hard as fuck for you to find something you are happy with. Problem is there are Realtors who just don’t care and really ruin the occupation for those who work extremely hard. I relate it to GOOD tuner shops who do good work, they are hard to come by… but there are also all these little shops in between that do shit work and charge a ton of money for it.