Assess My Strategy for Finding Best Local RE Agents and Lenders

[David Casas]

Good afternoon all,

I am starting my journey, and am very very excited to get going with the nitty-gritty of getting to know my area's best and brightest and building my Real Estate Investing Team to have a solid foundation. I have a basic strategy I would like to run by some of you more experienced REIs:

To find the best Real Estate Agents with an investor mindset, talk to many lenders (Mortgage company, private hard money lenders, banks, etc) and ask for their referrals, or whose name they see the most in their paperwork

To find the best Real Estate Lenders, talk to many Real Estate Agents and ask for referrals for REI Lenders.

I will be going in to banks and real estate agencies to start interviewing these lenders and RE Agents, and I was wondering, what questions would you ask a real estate lender? What questions would you ask a real estate Agent? Do you ask for contact info of past clients on the first meet? I want to be sure I am properly vetting them and doing my due diligence to build a great team.

Thank you,

David