This virus is still a mystery.

After he over sells the number of properties available,  mysteriously, he runs out of money and requires each buyer to put in additional funds.

Using a Realtor allows them to avoid the hassle of mysterious paperwork and legal issues such as what to do with the earnest money.

Not sure where you're going with this unless this is a reference back to your mysterious pool boy that is going to sink a Fortune 500 company.I keep bringing up S&P500 because most 401Ks will offer something that tracks this.  

He mysteriously disappeared after bidding a job one day.

With GC, what you see is what you get...no mystery.  

This is a mystery to me. 

Plus it is just so easy to go to work five days a week 9-5, but lets be honest with breaks, lunch, talking over the water cooler, texting, leaving just 20 min early ect that 40 hr work week gets necked down to sub 30 real quick. the rest of your time you can enjoy doing what you like, going out on a boat, drinking beer, watching The Voice, reading your mystery novels. 

If it's a buyer who seems cool and just wants to talk turkey in order to get a deal done, I'll sometimes tell them just to get rid of the mystery, especially when I know I have other buyers anyway.  

One of the best things (almost nobody does) is to spend a few hours and mystery shop your competition - pretend you are an interested aplicant and call, ask questions, see if they do open house type showings.