SFGate.com - "Sellers slow to wake up to the new reality" (9-1-06)

Some agents are less politic about the frustrations of dealing with unrealistic sellers. "She's in for an education, all right," one agent, who asked to remain nameless, told me after dishing the dirt on a prospective client. "She thinks her condo is worth more than it is, she wants to live there while it's up for sale, she doesn't want to stage it and she doesn't want to do a speck of work on it. Not even painting!" He pauses. "Well, she's gonna learn the hard way, and it's not going to be pretty."