Clearly there are some legal alternatives to leveraging unique relationships before having a license on the wall. 

And if she has, then hopefully you will get to form a good working relationship with a new agent, one who who is professional enough to respect her choice in lenders and happy that she’s already got everything in place to make an offer.

(I'm not an attorney so I'm just raising an issue you may want to discuss with an actual attorney, but you may find this series of videos on wholesaling which was made by an attorney in Ohio to possibly be applicable to your situation.)In general I'm much more in favor of spending time to build relationships with a smaller number of buyers you've met with a few times and vetted a bit, instead of doing a mass mailing campaign - the "rifle" approach rather than the "shotgun".If you decide that's something you want to investigate, you could contact active people here on BP and/or go to your local real estate investment group such as RIREIG in RI or Black Diamond REI in Mass to start building relationships.Good luck and let us know how it turns out of course!

Knowing the territory and developing relationships are essential to finding investment opportunities.

I would appreciate any and all ideas/feedback from this excellent forum. 

If they don't answer my questions, I know they have not read the ad and are just clicking and "tire kicking" or they lack the intellectual focus for me to have any business relationship with them.   

I served 21 years and wish I knew then what I know now.I think it's an excellent opportunity but I would also say you should be careful about what type of property you buy.

., and/or export to excel. 

I'm going to do it on my own but like you said I will help the fellow agents and build good relationships for future business.

A couple of things I WISH it had, if you are listening @Brandon Turner :-), are the ability to export to excel so we can do studies covering ALL years and a 'depreciation feature' like the Investment Property Calculator over at Dinkytown.com.