It is YOUR Real Estate Transaction. Know your Rights. MAKE your Agent do as you WANT, not the other way around. NAR does violate Anti-Trust Laws and there is NO Real Consumer Protection in Real Estate. The only PROTECTION you Have is to KNOW your RIGHTS, before you SIGN and be WILLING to Assert them.

"COMPETITION IN THE REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE INDUSTRY

"Competition provides American consumers lower prices, better quality services, and greater choice. In the residential real estate industry, competition is vitally important because buying or selling a home is one of the most important financial transactions a consumer will ever undertake. 

Given the size of the real estate industry,¹ any restraints on competition in real estate brokerage will have significant adverse consequences for consumers. Moreover, because real estate broker commissions are typically a percentage of the home sales price, the dollar amount charged by real estate brokers has increased significantly in recent years as home sales prices have escalated.² And, because the amount home sellers pay their real estate broker is built into the home sales price, both home buyers and sellers bear this expense.<sup>3"

Source of Post
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/reports/223094.htm#IC2

Read all at the Above Link, KNOW your Rights in your Real Estate Transaction. 

DO not Let your Real Estate Agent RUN your Real Estate Transaction or your life.</sup>