Grooming An Investor Friendly Real Estate Agent

[Ben N.]

Say you're looking for an investor friendly real estate agent to work with you in your target market....but after lot's of searching, finding one with that kind of experience just isn't happening.  Is it worth trying to groom an inexperienced agent for your needs?

Last year, BP put out "The Real Estate Agent's Ultimate Guide to Working with Investors": 

http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/08/24...

Would this be a good resource to share with an agent inexperienced in working with investors?  (Said agent would obviously have to WANT to learn this angle of the market and be willing to step beyond their normal processes of property analysis)

But for the sake of conversation...

Have any of you had the need to groom an agent to think and work with you the way you needed them to?  And how successful was it?  Any tips on how to initially approach an agent and ask them to learn this?  I'd love to hear from either the investor or agent perspective.

Thanks for your time in considering these questions!

[Wayne Brooks]

Finding an agent to work with you mostly hinges on whether the agent believes working with you, and your particular strategy, will be fruitful.