Non realtor access to the mls?

[Jeffery Waicak]

is there a way, outside of becoming a realtor, to get access to the MLS? I don't think my agent does a good job at getting me listings. She does excellent on many other things, communication, looking over the houses, etc., so I want to keep her around. She won't let me have access, is there another way?

[William Morrison]

I was talking to @Russell Brazil at a Meetup about two weeks ago here in Maryland about the MLS. I thought they were all connected. Well he and another explained they are not.
I have a buyer agent in an other state.  They use a different MLS and he sends me a buyer's access (my term) and he may have to renew it every 3 months.  It does not have all the features he has but it's pretty good.  Then I checked around and that's not common in other areas.