Feeling overwhelmed with my realtor

I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or whether I need to switch realtors. This isn’t one of those posts where I want to complain and bash all realtors. I really want to know what I’m doing wrong as a first time buyer.I went to an open house a couple months ago alone. I knew what kind of property I was looking for, but I wasn’t 100% sure. I instantly hit it off with the realtor who seemed like a genuine person.

At that time I was considering putting in an offer on that place because I thought it would be a good deal since it had been sitting on the market for months. (I’m in LA county btw so if something is not selling that long then it really is time for a price cut because most properties go quick). I asked the realtor if he could represent me as my buyers agent, and he agreed.Here’s the deal. This realtor works with a couple other more senior realtors as a team.

This property was actually one of their listings, which I didn’t know until later after he told me. I was still considering putting in an offer since I genuinely liked the place, but once it came down to numbers, something started feeling wrong. This is where I should have cut and run.Every single time he called me he would loop in his entire team on the call so it always felt like they were pressuring me to buy it. I wanted to give them 50 below asking, and he tried to convince me that it was too low, but that he would submit it if I wanted it. I kept hearing them whisper something to him after I would ask tough questions about why they still kept the price that high after 8 months on the market. At that point I just gave up on it and told him I was going to keep looking.

Mind you, I’m not a high maintenance buyer. I did not even ask him for showings since I’d go to the open houses myself. There was another place that came up that I really wanted to give on offer on. In one of our “chats” with his other realtors, they tried to persuade me to just give asking price. well well well, the place sold for way below asking, which was honestly a slap in the face to me.

I feel bad for this guy since he genuinely is a nice guy but for some reason I don’t trust the people he works with. They are one of the top realtors where I live, but I just feel like they don’t really care and just want to move onto the next customer. I get that realtors need to make money too, but at the same time I cannot stand the sales tactics. I’m really just looking for someone casual who can represent me whenever I get into a contract. I want to feel like I’m doing this on my own timeline, not theirs.Am I overly sensitive or should I just cut my losses and move on?