The one's that try to push you around for wanting to use a 203k loan are often the most misinformed or just pure lazy and looking for the lowest hanging fruit and a resistance free transaction.

From the pure investment side, you would have negative cash-flow which I personally like to stay away from but there are areas of the city that it would be worth it to take the negative cash flow to get appreciation long term.

Talk with, learn from and work with those who are already doing it and doing it successfully.In my opinion, buying real estate with no down is purely a gimmick started by those “real estate gurus” on TV selling their packages for thousands of dollars to attract the masses to attend.

and they are still at it today. but they are now pure as the driven snow...

I'd say your first paragraph is pure horesfeatherts, where is the proof of that?

I don't want to live there, I want it purely for investment purposes. 

They are turnkeying for double its market value based purely on the rent. 

No, and yes, that was pure sarcasm!

The pure ones are local and similar to the meeting you are about to take.

You would just need to be upfront to agents and say I'm not your retail real estate broker, I purely serve investors and I expect you to be an investor and knowledgeable in real estate prior to starting with my brokerage.