[GATORB8]

My wife and I are considering making a move out of state, and are looking at selling our home (NW Chicago Suburbs).

This is our first sale, it wasn't too hard to swallow the realtor commission on the buy since the seller foots the bill, but it has been hard for me to justify footing the bill for a 6ish% realtor commission on the sale, especially after our agent on the purchase side did little more than set up a recurring email from their MLS system (which didn't even find the house we bought) and spend a few hours looking at homes with us over the course of several weekends.

Has anyone had success in a For Sale By Owner situation that could recommend resources/lessons learned? Any worth in becoming an agent just for the sale?