Should I Fire My Realtor to Represent Myself?

[Jason L.]

I've been searching for a new primary recently. I've been working with a realtor for the last 6 weeks. Without getting too much into details, I feel like this realtor is just waiting for me to call him when I need an offer written and is otherwise adding no value to my search. I'm strongly considering removing him.

The catch here is that I am a licensed real estate agent, but I have never actually used it to represent myself in a sale (I've always just used it for referrals). At this stage of my search, I feel like I'd basically giving a forward pass to another agent to collect a commission in the next few months since I've already done a ton of research and I know I'm going to buy something by summertime. So I'm considering just representing myself. So that opens up the door to just run this thing out to the endzone myself here and save the commission (could probably even use it as a bargaining chip in negotiations).

The issue is that I don't really know that much about the finer details of being a buyers agent (even having bought multiple houses before). I don't want to worry about writing the contract wrong, etc. So is this a bad idea to represent myself if there's a likelihood of an error somewhere? Is there maybe another workaround to this (hiring an agent in some sort of limited capacity? making a deal with the listing agent to do the paperwork?).