Ethics Regarding Agents

[Quentin Thiery]

Hi BP,

I am a new investor who is currently taking the RE license course in NY and looking to house hack my first property soon (getting the reserves up at the moment). I've been speaking to a couple of agents in the area i'm looking to invest in but before I really start to dive into questions for these agents, what is the "protocol" or maybe unsaid rule in the real estate community about how much you can ask a real estate agent before it's unethical? For example, asking questions about the market and getting feeds from the MLS and so on can be great to maintain connections and get a tap onto the market, but I certainly don't want to appear to be trying to take up people's time - and multiple agents too - by "asking too many questions" or overall just taking up a certain amount of someone else's time with no indication that I would work with 1 specific realtor over another. Does this make sense? realizing the wording is kind of tricky to write out so apologies if this seems to be a ramble. I am eventually going to become an agent so this can be helpful for me to know but overall just trying to gauge what is considered good business practice when it comes to multiple agents offering you advice, leads, answers, etc.