Starting Out - Intro and Quick Question

[Jennifer Brown]

Hello BP Community! 

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm from the DFW area and my ultimate goal is to invest in multi-family and be financially free :-) I've been researching investing for the past year and feel I have a grasp on the concepts/lingo involved. I'd like to start actually getting out there and looking at properties in order to apply my knowledge. I'd like my first investment to be a 16+ unit building. Something large enough to make it feasible for a management company but also something small enough to help get my portfolio started.

As a real estate agent, I have access to the MLS so I've been looking around on there. I've noticed a lot of commercial agents will put that a showing is available to those with a letter of intent. Obviously I'm not looking to buy quite yet, but am more eager to look at properties and crunch the numbers for practice. For all my experienced MF investors out there, would it be okay to email/call the agent and ask for the data for the properties even though I'm not ready to purchase? I'm not even sure if that's info they give to just anyone who calls them asking for it. Any help would be appreciated so that I can start on this journey!