I'd build a network of agents and owners in your select markets that work primarily with investment properties.

Hey Joe, I'm an investor as well as a real estate agent in Green Bay.

Can the agent provide comps?

Im an agent/wholesaler here & I'd love to connect and see if I can help with anything.

In speaking with our insurance agent, we decided not to make an offer.

Also, your profile says that you're a real estate agent in Canada.

With enough knowledge you can make a educated decision on which approach you take.My experience:I personally don't sign up for any program who take you aside during events and try to sell packages that is just blatant sales strategy.Once you sign up there is every attempt to make you sign for their programs for bookkeeping, registered agent, LLC or corp setup fee which have ridiculous even with platinum membership.Basic standard structure they suggest to take advantage of multiple deductions can be easily achieved by proper education or work with a good firm like https://wcginc.com  who is local to you.A umbrella C-crop to manage all other LLC properties and take advantage of many tax deductions that are not available with a llc, its also used to take losses up to 100K as startup expenses and dissolve the entity after few years.Few LLC entities for investing in Real Estate, etc preferably in Wyoming or Nevada ( you can find many companies online who can do this for $150 compared to anderson $1500-$3000) , they will claim they have a secret Operating agreement which is bogus.They certainly try to take advantage of tax loopholes and claim to be smart people, my view they are just taking advantage of numbers as per their own statements.

An agent is not guaranteeing you a purchase or a sale.  

You may want to start with the BP agent finder for those markets and then work with them to find good PMs and lenders.

Brokers look out for their clients, insurance agents look out for their job.