Or should a surgeon not get paid what they get paid because the procedure only took 2 hours and it went smooth?

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

I understand its all verbal until you get to the attorney or something --- I've only transacted in NJ.as mentioned, if you have a super smooth transaction, it looks like the agent didn't do anything. 

To this point everything has gone rather smoothly; however, we recently received news our local insurance brokerage will not take on the risk of thia property.

Positive and quite smooth as the attorney we used was well versed in these types of deals.

Also, in PR, having a local facilitate that exchange - who knows the environment, smooths the way so much more.

We worked together before and it was a very smooth transaction.

I put gas and electric on the budget plan to smooth out the usage trends and find that that works well for me.

I had to do some serious damage control, smoothing things over and assuring them that I had their backs.

I had to reassure them, smooth things over, and learn on the fly.