I've decided to update this post as of today, April 9, 2008.  If you are moving to Seattle you should know that here in the Seattle area home buying and selling is less of a mystery for our local residents.  We likely have the best resources for finding a home online.  We being the Seattle Area as a whole.  Our buyers and sellers are tech savvy.  We have cutting edge sites like Redfin and Estately and JohnLScott.com to name a few.

Our clients enjoy lower than average commissions because they participate to a great degree in the home buying and selling process, given they have great resources available to them like Craigslist and Zillow and Trulia, and of course RainCityGuide where people ask questions and get real answers without fear of being "captured as a lead".

User friendly soft sell is the trend, and Seattle does it best.

UPDATE:  P.S. Somehow the competition for Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World picked up this post in their contest and I'm not sure why.