You may not know the mental state or anything about the person.

But it also creates a scarcity mentality and politicizes the process. 

Hi @Shawn Frost,Zoneomics is a useful resource, though it is not complete or exhaustive.

Plus, they have more of an "ownership" mentality and do not abuse your property. 

Usually 10% of my tenants leave the place better than they moved in, 10% of my tenants leave the place worse than they moved in and we had to exhaust their security and pay the cost in terms of 6 to 12 months rent to bring a property to listing condition (depend on how long the LTR tenants have lived there of course).

For example, my city requires 12-2 electrical or higher everywhere; it doesn't matter if you are running one single circuit to serve a 1/2 amp stove exhaust fan, you cannot use 15A breakers and 14ga wire anywhere.

Yes, your cashflow may dip a bit, but for me the peace of mind of someone else handling it was amazing.Plus, then you can use that mental bandwidth on new deals out in AZ if that is what you are interested in doing.

I'm not telling you NOT to improve/upgrade the property, but I'd exhaust all free/cheap options to market it as-is first.

Some broker may be ok to accept less buying commision but decline.I typically negotiate my buyer commision too but to be extremely honest, only "Asian-born" is typically acceptng less buying agent negotiation, so if they're getting 2.5% and I would get 0.5%, but I mentioned to them I don't ask them to drive me around, I only want disclosure report and I would visit property myself.The problem with very high hefty buyer agent while buyer agent almost do nothing is very real issue in bay area at least, most buyer agent is just trying to force buyer to submit their bid (and their life) with zero contingency and submit 100k above listing LOL LOLthis regulation would change these mentality for sure, the seller could be more greedy by now lol.Now because buyer agent and buyer is determined upfront and then seller would have their own metric, these thing would be interesting.

For now, my toddler and day job are exhausting enough!