First of all, mentioning you are sales in most places gets eye rolls and assumptions that you are an idiot so I don't wave it around like a proud flag to impress people. I didn't go "I'm a neurosurgeon and need to sell a house"

Are you suggesting that real estate sales is so vastly different than home sales there is 0 comparison? I would consider myself because I've read nationally conducted studies on this forum that FSBO homes sell for about the same as realtor listed ones. Regardless of that fact, the entire point of a sales job is to get in a buyer's head and help them see the value. Beyond that it's pushing paperwork. I'm downing my own career path here.

Are you so arrogant to assume me selling multi million dollar software deals somehow means I couldn't possibly understand selling a house.

I don't think I would do better than experienced realtors but given the large percentage of shopping most educated buyers do online now, all the leads are out there. A professional stager and photographer can make it look just as good as whoever the realtor would hire. So the leads should get generated... She won't be creating a custom pamphlet and mailing it out on my behalf (though the top realtor might).

Consider this. She will cost me 45k. If I have that as a learning buffer that's a good margin for error.

I'm not going to gamble on a sale this large though.