Because the real estate market was so terrible over the past six years or so, a large number of real estate agents left the profession as sales declined to historically low levels. There just weren't that many buyers out there and the number of sellers far outstripped the number of buyers. It was an extremely imbalanced marketplace, and it still is in many places. That said, there are good real estate agents and bad real estate agents; you need to determine whether your expectations were too high or whether there were real problems with the agents you picked to try to sell your home.