Given my norm was disinterested bankers–feet on desk, clipping their fingernails into a trashcan–I didn’t take Jane’s trust lightly and spent a lot of time and energy cultivating and maintaining it.The bank had a small problem, and I was ready to jump in the water to help.

If you are looking to gain experience and build your own portfolio, having full control is important and will cultivate the most experience.

It also fosters pride and cooperation, enhancing the landlord-tenant relationship.Tenant Satisfaction: By empowering tenants to handle property maintenance and landscaping, landlords cultivate pride and ownership.

For example I am LP in a fund that is very diversified (storage units, MF, Mobile homes, etc), a fund that specializes in taking garages and converting them to ADUs in MF, and a fund that includes a marijuana cultivation and retail store in NM.  

First off, you're basically asking if you can take the hard-work the Realtor did to find and cultivate the lead so they could list this person's home, and then cut them out of the deal. 

Perhaps you could cultivate a hard money lender (a person instead of a formal business?)

I have been successful in my career not due to my knowledge of building, but due to my cultivation of contractor relationships and broad range of experience.

I have been successful in my career not due to my knowledge of building, but due to my cultivation of contractor relationships and broad range of experience.

You should do what you can to cultivate it and keep it, not throw it away. 

I'll definitely be reviewing this often to make sure I cultivate a good relationship with my GC.