Real estate agents, property managers, and contractors who specialize in your target market can save you time and money in the long run.

I'd done some reading in the past and thought a few of the main Canadian banks had such specialty trust divisions that could help you with plan setup.As for finding investments, networking with other investors, real estate agents, etc. is the way to go.Brian, from what I've heard is that CAN banks  make it extremely difficult to setup. 

The issues really happen when it's just R.E. agents begging for some $, pitching "I can do that too" and in reality there in breach of NAR codes because they don't have proficiency and expertise in it what so ever.

It is not adhering to the representations made in the PPM.   

I am an agent here in Memphis that works with savvy investors.

Forwarding them to a retired FBI agent who worked on the money trail for 9/11. 

Quote from @Zongfu Li: An agent named Mathew Dial contacted me for loan opportunity and told me how flexible and how easy they can provide bridge loan lending and conventional lender.

They find an agent that they trust, and that agent and I work together to get the job done.

Finding good STR's can be a niche market, so it's a good idea to find an agent that is familiar with STR so they can point you in the right direction for zoning, good markets, etc. 

I mainly was curious about what legal grounds we have in order to proceed, since the PMA doesn’t specifically state “agent won’t grant criminals unsupervised access to your vacant property”, I figured that was just given!