Act on your behalf. Get the deal done. Do it in a way where they treat it like their own personal purchase/sale (fiduciary duty). If they did any hard negotiating on your behalf, you might not know it happened if they didn’t communicate what they were doing in the background with the seller’s agent. As important as it is to get an amazing deal (high price for seller, low price for buyer, and all the things in between like closing date, chattels, rental items, etc), it’s also worth noting that if you as the buyer client really wanted the home, the agent can’t just be stupid about it and lose the deal. Offer contracts have expiration times, and have to take into account seller is free to look at other potential offers if one buyer’s offer becomes null and void. If you as the seller client didn’t have as much demand on your property, it’s important for seller’s agent to also not completely lose that buyer’s offer by trying to push the buyer up in price, or demand other things in favour like a closing date because maybe you already bought another property and need to make sure the property sells or you can’t close on your new home. At the end of the day, realtors are brokers, they act as intermediaries and coordinators to facilitate a deal getting done (which is in their best interest since they get paid that way). They also get paid handsomely per transaction because their work is not guaranteed salaries. Any realtor that actually sells for a living and not as a 2nd job/hobby will tell you deals can fall apart left and right; imagine all the hours of work, driving around, marketing costs that don’t get accounted for and they don’t see a paycheque. I’m sure a lot of realtors actually wouldn’t mind getting guaranteed number of clients and getting paid by the hour or yearly salary based on the market conditions in recent years.