But if you're looking for an agent to sell a house you've lived in for 40 years, you want something else, like reassurance or empathy.
But if you forget or neglect to mention that you're working with an agent, your agent is out of luck even if he's driven you around for weeks and showed you 28 other houses.
An airline agent tried to re-book him on another flight while U.S. Airways corporate security was notified, police said.
He was upset about the Eagles' decision not to re-sign a free agent who instead joined the Denver Broncos.
"We're speaking to him and his agent, " Cooper told BBC Tees.
Agents are required to sit an exam every five years to re-qualify, with licensed agent Rob Shield saying he was one of only two to pass out of more than 100 people when he took the test.
However, like these User Agent Profiles, we're looking at these results with a suspicious glare until something more official surfaces.
One guy, Charles Stewart, was so - he made so much money training horses and that kind of stuff that he had to have an agent, and we're talking about like in the early 1800s.
The Jets recently re-signed Calvin Pace and signed free-agent Antwan Barnes, both pass-rushing outside linebackers.
"We're pretty comfortable we've got an effective agent here, " says Cephalon Chief Executive FrankBaldinoFrank Baldino.
"We're pretty comfortable we've got an effective agent here, " says Cephalon Chief Executive Frank Baldino .
Check with your travel agent, tour operator or hotel if you're on a trip and suddenly decide you've had enough of the slopes.
When asked by a letting agent who you want as tenants, you're going to go for a working professional who's going to pay by direct debit and not someone on benefits.
"They're going to fly to Rome and will meet you there, " his agent pleaded.
Now they're suing each other over issues including allegations of mishandled assets and purloined insurance agent lists.
The added flexibility could help New York re-sign the newly acquired Clowe, who can become an unrestricted free agent after this season.
That's going to be hard to do, since an IRS agent can always whip out an expert witness to say that you're nuts.
Aside from Byrd, the Bills are also attempting to re-sign left guard Andy Levitre, who is eligible to become a free agent after completing his four-year contract last season.
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"They're getting all the action because they made the effort, " said real-estate agent Robert Herskovitz, who lives with three dogs and volunteers with Mighty Mutts, a nonprofit that finds home for stray animals.
Time is running out on the Bills to re-sign Levitre, a four-year starter who is eligible to become a free agent March 12.
The opportunity to re-sign with Buffalo was first broached during conversations between team officials and Scott's agent at the NFL combine in Indianapolis last month.
Free-agent contracts can last just seven years, but clubs can go to eight years to re-sign their own players.
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"They're still on the ship because they don't know where to dock the boat, " said agent Bailey Chung.
They swung a sign-and-trade deal over the weekend with the Blazers to re-acquire former Knick point guard Raymond Felton (they'd already signed 39-year-old free agent Jason Kidd).
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