@Julien Anaya Don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but definitely a scam.

So the agent is telling you to put the cart before the horse. 

You can lead a horse to water and all that...

The start of this process is an iterative cart-before-the-horse, chicken-and-egg, “insert idiom”, and keeping potential investors in the loop on your process will give you a reason to stay in touch while proving your abilities and defining your value-add with investor input.2)  Partnering with experienced Bigger Pockets members is an exponential multiplier when you need to build your credentials, augment your skillset, and validate your platform with investors.3)  Your investors don’t always need to provide 100% of the purchase plus renovation cash.

I think you're putting the cart before the horse.

Not to beat a dead horse, but it is an extreme area from one spot to the next.

This will obviously have large impacts to our economy before we even get into the cost of transporting goods or the doubling of available land in most cities.Just as cars turned out to be more than not needing to own horses, driverless cars will be about more than not needing to own vehicles.

You need to have studied them before you got your first tenant.The horse is out of the barn at this point in time.Next tenant make sure you issue a pay or quit notice the day after rent is due and not received.

Cart before the horse... chicken or the egg?

I'm more of a conservative investor, so I'd say slow and steady beats quick and risky :)Since you haven't made your first investment yet, this is a little bit cart-before-the-horse, but once you have that first MFR under your belt, don't forget that you can always use the 1031 exchange to leapfrog it into bigger and better, or smaller and more numerous, if you find other, more lucrative, REI opportunities down the road.