Is it reasonable to ask an agent for...

[Alex Popescu]

My partner and I are looking for a real estate agent to help us with our search and was wondering if it is reasonable to ask them to go beyond the typical showing of the comps. Having working as a commercial appraiser in the past, we would call the comps sales agents to dig all of the motivating factors that influenced the buyers' decision, do a quick market analysis, look at the asset conditions, etc.

Is it reasonable to ask my future agent to do all of this leg work as well? .. (mind you, we would charge a lot less than a typical borker charges).