Interesting since my experience as a buyer with Redfin was that Redfin, not the selling agent, took care of all the work required to make the sale happen, get it through escrow to closing on time, cross the t's and dot the i's.
In 2 prior purchases, each with a different "full-service realtor" as my "agent," both sales would have fallen apart had they depended on either of those agents to keep them afloat, much less move them forward. Once the purchase was accepted by the seller, one full-service realtor made vacation plans while the other scheduled an elective surgical procedure. Both were unreachable on the day the deals should have closed and neither closing occurred timely.
The opposite was the case with Redfin, whose "paperwork person" took over managing, reminding and coaxing, as needed, all escrow, lender and seller deadlines so that everything occurred as planned. Meanwhile, my "sale negotiator," Joyti the Miraculous, kept on top of the sale after it was made, reviewed inspections results, submitted an addendum taking $20,000 off the sale price weeks after the sale was accepted by the seller, and despite the seller being a bank, despite the purchase agreement stating "NO REPAIRS, AS-IS, NO DISCUSSION!" and somehow -- after the fact -- got us $20k off the under-market foreclosure listing price!
Redfin is the only realtor in LA I've ever gotten full-service service from after finding the place we wanted . . . on Redfin!
If you get a strange look from a seller's agent at an open house, perhaps you should inform them that you're with Redfin because they give the best service to buyers (and, in the process, sellers' agents) of anyone in town. Tell the OH rep he'll be free to schedule his tummy tuck or honeymoon in Tahiti while Redfin does all the work required to close "his" sale.
