Realtors as a source for Investment Opportunities?

[John Mark Pollard]

Just looking for opinions here.

What do you think about working with realtors to help you find investment opportunities? I do not mean as your only strategy, but just as one more avenue.

For those of you that do utilize a realtor(s), on average what sort of results are you seeing? I'm wondering if it is better to pick a seasoned pro or someone who is extremely competent but somewhat new to the game (as the newer ones tend to be the hungriest) ??? The problems I have run into with seasoned pros is that they are, of course, incredibly busy and I'm just not a priority.

I'm mainly talking about buying not selling.