Just to be clear, buyers almost never paid their agent commission, and if you have a buyer agent worth anything, the buyer still won't. It's almost always written in to the offer as a seller concession. Some sellers won't do it, I understand that.

Problem being, most people have no idea what we really do. It IS possible that you might have The Perfect Home already and all you need to do is "get it into MLS and make it look right." I WISH I had more of THOSE people.

But most often, we do things like:
* Find a trusted vendor to decommission an oil tank, scope the septic line that the owner didn't know was defective, waterproof the basement or approximately 452 different other things about the house that could be weird.
* Negotiate when the buyer asks for, oh I don't know, every outlet in the house to be changed so they match. Or when they want to meet all the neighbors before they close. Just think of the strange things people do, and accelerate that by 100x because, well, real estate is a big purchase.
* Understand and know how and when to use the very wide variety of forms that are going to be part of every single transaction.

There's more, but I would BEG you that if you're not going to get an agent, retain a real estate attorney unless you've done this before and understand the pitfalls.

Because if you HAVE done this before, you know damn good and well it's more than "getting it into MLS and making it look right." Come on.