Judging a "Book"... or a Realtor...

I'm annoyed tonight. I think I'm just overly tired, nervous about the house hunt, etc. My realtor is already irritating me and I haven't even met her/them yet! We started off talking to A, she seemed nice enough, and told me to just send the listings we'd been looking at. So I sent over a list of about 11 properties and then suddenly S is sending me emails. Did I already get the brush off?

S was also nice enough, told me which ones were still available and that she would set appointments for Saturday. I said great, can you also check on these other 2 and let us know if you find any others that have the same criteria. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they said, we get it. I wanted to meet them at the first property - they wanted us to meet them at their office. Somehow they win. I'm afraid they are going to make us sign a contract to use them or something.

Then I made the mistake of googling them and saw their pictures. I know you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but I don't like them. They look witchy with a B. Maybe it's just that I didn't get my way, and I'm forced to go where we -- the ones who are going to earn you thousands of dollars -- don't want to be.

And yet, as I think back to when I bought this house, I realize that they aren't asking anything strange. I remember my realtor then, simply having a print out of the MLS and a cell phone and that's how we proceeded through the day. I made an offer that day and was accepted 3 days later. I don't think we'll be making an offer tomorrow. There are simply too many properties to jump that quickly, whereas 8 years ago, there were so few that if you didn't jump, it was gone.

I should just go to bed. Too Hidgety-fidgety still. I need to just breathe.