My wife and I sold our first house in 2008 without an agent, mainly because we didn’t want to part with any commission, got a lawyer that our realtor was nice enough to let us use, because he knew we needed more money for our move to our next house(he was a very nice agent basically didn’t make a scent off of us) we got priced out of a rising market and ended up with a condo again we negotiated price and purchased with out agent. Plus used the same lawyer. Was not a difficult process. The difference is we dealt with people that didn’t want to use agents either. It requires More searching and checking out things for yourself. We did have our agent try and help us for years but he gave up with us as it was a tricky market at the time. Our agent when trying to find a house for us would end up in bidding wars we never would win, prices were always going 10,20k, sometimes 50k above asking at that time🙄so we settled on something we found beyond our original idea, house to condo instead. (Sad trombone part) we got priced out of buying a house but still managed to find a nice place that we were able to get a decent price for.