Back when I was a real estate investor (before I became a Realtor), my biggest challenge was finding an agent who would actively find me properties to buy. They'd just email a few homes for sale a couple of times a week.

Most of the time I ended up finding houses on my own. It was really frustrating. I thought, "isn't that how they get paid? Finding houses for clients?"

Then I discovered why.

They were working with so many other buyers they just didn't have the time to do a Proactive Home Search.

So instead, they set up a search using some basic criteria (budget, zip code, etc.) and let an algorithm and some emails do the rest.

I guess it was just a numbers game to them. Out of the hundreds of emails they sent every day, someone was bound to like something.

This approach just doesn't work.