I'm new to real estate investing and looking to connect with any local investor.

I emailed one of the mortgage reps that I've worked with before there as well.

can you layout your typical transaction with these folks its unclear from your post how these were set up.. are you a borrower and they are the first position lender on flip deals ???

Found T&H realty services to be pretty interesting as they provide both buyer brokerage service (to help me find deals) as well as do property management i.e. they are not full turnkey provider necessarily, but reduces some of the hassle for me I guess as an out of state investor. 

There’s no percents of the rental mortgage or anything like that. 

Hi Rohmah,Out of BRRRR investor here as well.Agents, lenders, contractors, PMs are your core!

So many "investors" bury themselves in complex, expensive situations to protect themselves from some unknown threat to their non-existent business.Figure out if you have any shooting skills (or even enjoy the game) before spending money on $600 Nikes or an indoor basketball court. 

There are no simple instructions on how to simply skip trace someone's info.

I’m sure there are things I wouldn’t even think of since I haven’t done it before.

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