It doesn't cost you anything and your agent will help save you valuable time. 

Or maybe even, you've flooded enough that you're participating in HCFCD's voluntary buyout.Also for non-homeowners, say they were basically ready to buy before the disaster, had the money saved up, would have been using an fha loan anyway, maybe waiting for a lease to end.

You can't close until the title issues are resolved.  

I am 22, and my wife is 20 years old, we have about $20,000 saved up, and would like to start investing in real estate, to build wealth for us  now, and for our future.

I own a rental property in the area that I recently discovered had a small lean against the title that I need some help getting resolved.

The pros are having access to the MLS, saving the commission or making the commission, being licensed to broker sales, building a career with brokering, etc.

Start saving some money up in the meantime so you at least have some available cash.  

For reference, here is my current default log with POL -- as indicated some of these have been non-performing for many months/years but there has been almost zero movement/action by the POL "asset management" team at resolving.

My wife and I staged the property ourselves and saved a few thousand by doing so.

They also have 1% or greater interest on both checking and savings