What are your specific goals with real estate investing?

Unless you find a buyer with a very specific criteria who is willing to pay above the typical 70% - repairs.

As mentioned above, they specifically allow this.  

You CAN limit that agreement to a specific property; but, as others have stated, agents are looking for a certain amount of loyalty from their clients.If an agent gets vibes from a prospective client that indicates that they want to cheapskate and not pay a professional for their service, they are not likely to waste their time with them.

JoelIt seems to cater specifically to agents. 

Both my wife and my background is in manufacturing, specifically operations, customer service, and project/account management. 

I'm not specifically familiar with BP's deal analyzer (I use my own).

Podcasts on the way to and from work, and read a book right before bed, maybe even squeeze a few minutes into browsing some specific topics in the forums.

Tried to search specifically for this but wasn't having any luck though I think I've ready it in here before.  

All the various consumer laws exist specifically to stop bad actors from doing stuff like this.