This was my experience as well in Seattle. I did a corporate relocation and they also provided a paid-for agent to find rentals. She was pretty much useless. M

This was my experience as well in Seattle. I did a corporate relocation and they also provided a paid-for agent to find rentals. She was pretty much useless. Most of the places she sent us didn't match our criteria very well, and quite a few were above where we wanted to spend. As each day went by and we nixxed place after place she clearly de-prioritized us in her work (I'm assuming she was working with multiple other people who were looking for places) and became less responsive. At the end of the day I had to do my own hunt and fly up a second time to look at places over a weekend to find something. And that's a paid agent from a large moving corp. I do wonder if a (more expensive) boutique agent would have been more effective but honestly having worked in real estate I consider them all at the same level as used car salesmen anyway.