Additionally different builders negotiate differently with consumers verses agents.

The agreement should last 4-5 days.If I don't like that home, and I think I want to engage a buyer agent for more in depth services over a longer period of time, then I will entertain other buyer representation agreements, but I will not agree to over 2%, which is the maximum recommended by the Consumer Federation of America.To be fair, if my needs required my buyer agent to show me 30+ homes, or preview them since I am out of town, or something else that took an extraordinary amount of the agent's time, I would consider more than 2%.

Isn't that some form of Consumer Fraud?

Consumer protection does not include non owner occupied property.

I totally understand it’s cheaper to list it yourself, but if you have a full time job already, this can be very time and energy consuming.

If not, you are just flying blind and being a consumer, not an investor.

Given that she is a CONSUMER it may be difficult qualify her ABILITY to REPAY.  

So far so good but let's see if any of these other points are as close as they appear..NAR rules: good or bad for consumers? 

First house flip was very time consuming learned a lot.

But consumers are definitely seeing more choices, and affordability is improving due to lower interest rates.” — Lawrence Yun, NAR’s Chief Economist