>few if any agents seem interested in working at hourly rates It’s because most agents work as self-employed contractors under the auspices of a brokerage, and

>few if any agents seem interested in working at hourly rates It’s because most agents work as self-employed contractors under the auspices of a brokerage, and the brokerage is not going to allow that. And/ or, in a state using standardized legal documents, we don’t even have a form for that, which means we’d need to come up with an hourly contract from scratch - and the brokerages will put their foot down on that too.