The thing you really need to watch for is inexperienced and desperate agents- those are the ones who are most likely to really, really want your business and engage with you, meet with you, spend tons of time analyzing and showing properties- they have the time to do that because they aren't doing any deals, don't have any clients and have no experience. 

I would engage a real estate attorney to draft the loan agreement and deed of trust as a template that could be used in the future. 

I also find that many of the lenders who want to soft underwrite try to charge an engagement fee of some sort, usually $5k-10k. 

Rather than engaging, take a deep breath and then tell him that you are happy to take him off your mailing list or fix the error. 

This is also a good time to work on things like your social media presence (engagement + content creation), educate yourself on the market, attend trainings, go to networking events, Read, etc.6-8pm dinner and family time8-10pm Wind down time, evening journaling, prep for the next day10pm ZzzI hope this helps and wish you all the best on your journey!

Just started engaging with Instagram as I feel this social media platform will help most in accomplishing my goal.

Something that says if the Seller violates the agreement and circumvents the introducing party (You) and inappropriately engages the contacts for the purpose of doing business with them directly (cutting out the introducing party), then that party is subject to a monetary penalty of $xxx. 

I won't go into great detail here because we've engaged legal resources and I don't want to make the issues too public.

I'm pretty plugged in to the local investor network (although to be honest, most investors just try to keep to themselves here and are reluctant to engage in the kind of conversation you're talking about)!

I work with so many sellers that are in various "bad" situations that had no idea there were other options for them, and there are many buyers (both buy and hold and fix and flip) that are depending upon wholesalers to provide properties that have margins for profit in them.My advice to you is to get engaged with your local RE group and there will certainly be a wide array of RE investors that can help you navigate the local legal aspects, and my experience is that there is a large portion of these folks that are happy to help anyone in need.