The problem (as you have cited) is trying to understand what you need (you don't know what you don't know), where to get it, qualifying its source(s), and the validity and usefulness of all that.Pardon me if I've gone into this too much, but I meet many people with the same concerns that you are voicing and this is offered, as much as possible in direct response to your post.Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments or questions. 

Then if in the US you have to find a friend of theirs to get their contact info.    2.  

If you believe that to be true then simply ask the escrow officer to forward it to the Seller they will have sellers contact info and they are a neutral party..

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Said it was for sale but didn’t have any contact information for them.  

The northland (as north of the river is often called) is also a burgeoning home to massive data centers including one built by Facebook’s parent Meta and also has charming and distinctive downtowns including North Kansas City and Parkville.

That's the same chart/data I posted above.

Of course, if the agent has an entire team of people working with him, he might pawn off any contact with a client or potential client to a team member who may or may not be licensed until the buyer gets serious about purchasing. 

He tells you to contact brokers in the area of the property & try to get them to find you a tenant within 2 weeks while you have the property tied up.The problem with that is the brokers will tell you they can't help you if you don't actually own the property.

We meet every month, and are in constant contact with these individuals, in business relationships going a lot deeper than that.The second way is to contact a large group of people with the understanding that only a few will result in “deals”.