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I've been looking for 4 months and I feel the same way. Even though we are in a downturn and supposedly nobody is buying, there seem to be a lot of aggressive buyers in Irvine snapping things up quickly. We even saw an icky, dumpy house with a stupid floorplan initially priced at $650k, and then...

I'm glad most people are saying not to sign with this guy. That was my gut feeling as well. What is a realtor supposed to do, exactly? It's not 1979, so we don't need to have the realtor give us a printout of the available houses and drive us around in a Lincoln Town Car. Basically, we've...

Thanks for the replies. I do want to work with this guy, because I think he'd do a good job, but the contract thing is holding me back. I can understand why he wants one, but it's just unfair for us as the buyers. We'd have no recourse if things didn't work out; we'd just be stuck with him. It...

We're first-time buyers and have been looking for a couple of months and haven't found anything, so we're thinking of getting a new realtor. We spoke with a realtor this week, but he won't work with us unless we sign an agreement to work exclusively with him (for either 3 months or 6 months...

Thanks for the advice, everyone. Seems like most people are saying don't buy at all. That's a surprise! What about the tax write-off you get from owning...isn't that part of the reason to buy? Or is it just not significant enough to justify buying in this market? I'm curious what you all think.

Not the time to buy, why? We are currently renting in Irvine and need more room. We want to buy and don't want to rent anymore!

First-time stressed-out psycho potential buyer needs help deciding where to buy! We are basically deciding between Irvine, Laguna Niguel, or possibly Aliso Viejo. Most of the stuff we looked at in Irvine seems so expensive, and we can't get much with our budget of about $650-$700k. There is one...