There was one that I thought had some merit though. I don’t have the link to this, but I can look it up. A couple that didn’t live in the area they were purchasing in are suing their agent for basically talking them into the raw deal. They basically told him find a house in XX-XX price range, and he did. Then they purchased it. The catch was that it was a track home, and there were basically identical track homes selling for over 150k less that had pools in the same neighborhood. In this case, the agent was supposed to be working for the buyer’s best interests, and he was obviously not. Based on his location of specialty and 20 years of practice, he would have known that they were getting a bad deal, and he simply chose to cheat his employers (the buyers). I like this specific lawsuit because I would like to see an emphasis placed on buyer’s agents actually being “required” or “liable” to work for the best interests of the people they represent.

This is an isolated incident, most people do a lot of their own research and would have seen the other listings. I agree buyer’s should do their own research, but when you are effectively paying someone over 10k to do the research for you, is it too much to ask that they do their job.

$68 for a sweater at Nordstroms? I think you were already at the sales rack.