Advice for Finding an Investor Friendly Agent

[Kyle Davidson]

Last year I bought my first investment property as a house hack. I was new to the real estate game, fresh off reading The House Hacking Strategy by Craig Curelop and had just begun listening to the BP Podcast. The idea of living for free and building my investment portfolio excited me and I immediately took action. Without much thought I dove into the housing search with a real estate agent who is a family friend and told him the market I was looking to invest in as well as my plans with the property. My real estate agent had never heard of the house hacking and wasn't familiar with the area I was looking to purchase a home in. I set up alerts with my agent to receive an email when a property fit my certain criteria, however when I would text/call him to go check out a property he would always tell me we can check it out the upcoming weekend, needless to say I missed out on a lot of potential properties because of this. Overall, my experience with the real estate agent wasn't great.

I am now looking to begin the search for my second house hack and am trying to figure out how to connect with a great real estate agent.  I am looking to invest in an suburb outside of Philadelphia called Phoenixville, PA. What advice do you guys have on how to find and connect with a great real estate agent?