Do not put yourself in position where a listing agent may suspect you are trying to poach their clients.      

Because if you give an exclusivity agreement it means that that agent can freely disclose the address without fear of other agents in the city trying to poach that listing for themselves(Happens far too often).

We hunt and fish and farm, most days, and occasionally we sneak into town to poach a property or two!

I can't think of anyone on here that would poach someones possible purchase.

Some subs work weekends now - they're basically being poached by longer term, higher paying industrial/commercial builders who have 6-9 month contracts whereas in the past most subs needed to find their own work from job to job with GCs.

I would never buy at 5.5% and assume in the future you can refi for 3%. if you do that, please get into Multifamily so I can poach your deals when you have to short sell. 

Converted a covers poach to a 2nd bedroom.

This is a 1964 single wide mobile home with a couple of framed in poaches on 1/3 acre.

I would think the other source of clients would be people working for the government who live just outside the district, though I do know with the boom in Bethesda tenants aren't paying fees right now so I would hope that owners are (hoping to poach tenants from other buildings).

Another option would be to weigh out how much the fees are vs what you could loose if someone poaches your deals.Another option would be an assignable contract that you get the sellers to sign.