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This pretty much depends on how much of a ####### you are and the state of the market, I bought my current house without an agent, it was listed for 289,000 which was a reasonable price at the time, I rang the agent saw the house and left the viewing with 'get the price down to 250,000 and I'll buy it' which was a loony discount, the market was dead at the time and it was an older crappy house and had no tenants so the owner was losing money, it was priced so they could drop 10 to 15 grand off the price anyway. The agent was actually a bit teed off but they had no one else so in the end agreed, took a few weeks though, I should emphasise I didn't bother them much, it was one veiwing an offer with no subjects on a house with obvious defects I was ok with, no inspections or the like (there is no point on a 100 year old house really).

Was the third house I had bought so didn't really need much advice, I had been checking out houses in the area to get a sense of the market so knew the price was ok, I was also totally fine with walking away from the deal or losing it. That was in 2000 in East Van, needless to say have done well on the place.