If you walk into a model home this weekend — just to look, no pressure, you're not serious yet — and you sign in at the front desk, you may have just given up your right to have anyone represent you on that home. Most builders in Central Ohio have a registration policy. Whoever's name is on that sheet first is who they recognize. If it's just yours, you're unrepresented in that community. Not for a day. For that builder, for that neighborhood, for that purchase. And here's the part that should actually bother you: you didn't save a dollar by doing it. The builder's incentive budget doesn't shrink because you showed up alone. It's already allocated. It just doesn't get spent on you, because there's nobody in the room whose job is to ask for it. That's not a scare tactic. Call any builder in Delaware or Union County right now and ask what their registration policy is. Ask what happens if you tour first and bring an agent second.