Hard disagree. For people taking 6% of purchase price in fees, real estate agents need to be vastly better than they are. They were insufferable in Austin over the past few years, the silver lining of a serious housing crash would be watching them try to join the ranks of the productive.

It reminds me of IT recruiters in the UK a few years back: [1] sums up the situation very well and applies just as much.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293...