[aidenn0]

A good realtor will often not recommend the same contractors that they use for prepping a home for sale. The requirements for getting a home in saleable condition and getting a home in livable condition are not always the same.

Instead they act as an information hub for homeowners.

Obviously "good realtor" is doing a lot of work here, and I don't know how you find a good realtor (kind of lucked into mine after having a terrible one for my first purchase).

[LoganDark]

It sucks to find good tradespeople because word of mouth does so much for them that they hardly advertise. So if you actively look for one, you tend to ONLY find the bad ones, and you're actually less likely to find the good ones... unless you know someone who happens to know someone. Which sucks since I don't know anyone (and trying to look for someone encounters the exact same problem)