Buying Agent and Selling Agent

[Dan Graney]

I am trying to decide between two good buying agents that I have worked with in the past. I saw a property that I wanted to walk thru so I just contacted the listing agent to take me thru it. Since they are a selling agent I would like to have someone represent me as the buyer when I put in an offer. I imagine this will take away part of the selling agents commission but I want to cover my back. Is it against protocol to have someone else put the offer in now after the other agent has done some work on my behalf?  

[Wayne Brooks]

@Dan Graney Legal procuring cause aside, if you have an agent you plan on using, you need to have that agent schedule and show you properties, not set up an appointment with the listing agent, especially not telling them you have your own agent.  Simply bad practice.  Have I showed a property to another agent's  client, as the listing agent, when that agent called me and ask becausse they were unavailable..sure.  Open houses are a different animal, and don't establish any agency as far as I'm concerned.  Would I prefer you tell me if you have an agent when you look at my open house....sure, but it's not required.  Just like I don't expect to lose  a buyer I've shown 20 houses to because they walk in an open house.