A lot of NYC agents also do this to supplement income. Real estate is feast-or-famine, and especially during the slower sales markets you can find that agents a

A lot of NYC agents also do this to supplement income. Real estate is feast-or-famine, and especially during the slower sales markets you can find that agents are highly incentivized to do a good job. But yeah, you're going to take a back-seat to the purchase transaction in a hot market, unless you make it worth their while on a dollar-per-hour basis. That's the downside of using a "regular" real estate agent. In NYC specifically, there are agencies that make most of their business from renter-side representation. You can find the good ones easily on the usual review sites.