Is the home you found a "For Sale by Owner"? If so, you can certainly hire a buyer's agent to represent you in the purchase of the home. Very often the seller is willing to pay the commission. If they aren't, you have the option of hiring someone yourself and I certainly recommend doing that. As you read in one of the other answers, commissions are negotiable, so you would have that conversation with a person you want to have represent you and then that amount can simply be rolled into the offering price of the home and becomes a term of the contract. You don't mention where in Connecticut you are looking to purchase, but if it's in the southeast corner, down by the shore I would be happy to speak with you about working something out to help you make your purchase.
Pat Caron
Randall Realtors, GMAC
Mystic, CT 06355
860-235-3069 - Fri Jun 20 2008, 13:11