how not to piss off an agent when getting familiar with area

[Patrick Boutin]

I have heard many times in books and podcasts that before getting ready to start making offers, one should familiarize with the area, property values, by "looking at 100 properties, making offers on 10 and maybe getting 1 offer accepted".

In his "Book on Flipping Houses", J Scott also recommends this, in order to become familiar with properties that are being flipped, what they look like before and after, in order to know what a good deal looks like.

Going back to my question, if I found an agent in an area that I was interested in investing and wanted to do this, knowing fully I wasn't at the stage where I was ready to pull the trigger, how would one go about doing this with an agent's help and not piss them off?

Looking at that many properties takes time for the agent in order to locate the properties, meet me at each one in order to let me in and spend time at each one in order to discuss it... Wouldn't an agent be tired of the "tire kicking"? I know I would be was I in their shoes...

What would you recommend as a way to get this done and not piss an agent off?

I was thinking that maybe contacting more than one agent in order to divide the time spend with more than one agent in different properties... Would this be ok?

I also thought that doing this would be beneficial in a sense that it would allow me to talk to multiple agents and see and compare each one with one another and see what agent I liked working best with and felt most comfortable with.. Seems like a way to "kill to birds with one stone".

What do you guys think?