In addition to cultivating a network of GCs, I have also worked on developing a group of local investors.

This whole business is about relationships, find a realtor who is experienced and you feel comfortable with and cultivate a relationship with that person. 

I thought the title of your post suggested cannabis cultivation!

 (1) Cultivate broker relationships or (2) cultivate owner relationships.  

I'm now eager to cultivate passive income streams that exceed my expenditures---through real estate and other means.Lately I feel a bit like I’m in a foreign land in my life.

The database you mention would quickly become unmanageable due to its sheer size.Funding is every investor's greatest challenge, especially starting out.One of the most valuable skills an investor can cultivate is team building which includes private lenders and other partners who can help you fund your deals.Drop me a note privately.

With your loan amount it's likely you will encounter a full-recourse lender as most of the non-recourse lenders prefer loans above 1MM.Your friend has either cultivated relationships with lenders who will cater to his wants based on a long track record of permanence or he is playing in a deeper pool than you are currently where he has non-recourse options available due to higher loan amounts.I wouldn't put too much stock in what he said as it's more common to get a full-recourse loan than a non-recourse one.

See the photos below: - Use Cold Calling 2.0 to build hard money and JV pipeline:The way that I can see our company using CC2 is focused around our B2B efforts as CC2 seems to be harder to implement into a B2C setting unless the lists of targeted consumers are easy to buy or can be cultivated by your marketing team.

Being less sleek by not having a card with a logo ready might help cultivate that image in their mind.

Cultivate relationships before-hand, ideally minimizing the risk of getting beat!