I’ve done the Boston REIA events in person you have to work harder to get substance from it (in my personal opinion). 

Or it could just be overpriced and scaring away buyers because of that.The more you can find out ahead of time the better, and usually there's no harm in asking as long as you don't offend the agent or make yourself sound like a high maintenance buyer. 

They typically don't know what they are doing and typically, do more harm than good. 

@Jaylen Boswell- wholesalers generally make their money by finding desperate or ignorant owners in order to make their spread-deception in their dealings is the general rule....”I’ll buy your house for cash with a quick close”, while they try to tie up the property for as long as possible then walk away if they can’t resell it  This is especially harmful with sellers facing foreclosure, which are their main targets.

I see lots of REI at the top of the proverbial mount stupid posting videos about topics they don't really understand and that can do a lot more harm than good. 

If you hire someone with several violent felonies and then they hurt someone while on the job, you are taking on risk of being sued for putting the victim in harms way.  

His reasoning was that if something goes south in the acquisition or rehab phase, lenders (or other harmed parties) would not have access to our rental property portfolio.

In this market, it might be more harmful to try to use an agent on less desirable properties, as some of them are too busy to care about small sales at this time.

If tenants are violent or actively harming property, you can likely fully evict them now under the "interests of justice" exception to the moratorium.  

Because it lets you keep a property out of harms way with no leverage but also lets you take advantage of leverage on the other property.