Are real estate shows making it impossible to work with buyers?

[Jonathan Greene]

I stopped working with on-market buyers last year because they were driving me insane. Is everyone feeling this all over the country? Buyers are watching too much Fixer Upper and think every house should be perfect, but also priced right for them. When it comes time for inspection, they think they should be entitled to "repairs" like unmatching doors and ugly handles.

The one other thing that I think these shows have done to debilitate buyer's agents is that now buyers think they know everything and that we are just interchangeable bobbleheads who are opening the door for them. I have seen a huge increase in buyers who just go to Open Houses and don't think they need an agent until they need to make an offer and then don't understand why they have to rush.

But, in their defense, the real estate industry as a whole has a very low bar so there are a lot of bad agents that they come into contact with that help enhance the stereotypes they come to the table with after watching another episode of Property Brothers.