After buying and selling multiple pieces of real estate, we still own a house hack (somewhat unconventional approach with a carriage house & primary home), but we love the flexibility it affords us. 

Investors here are looking for agents who invest or work with multiple investors who would give you a recommendation.

You will want to get multiple quotes from different lenders so you can see for yourself the numbers.

I know it'll take more than 1 postcard sent out or one call made and I know I need to make multiple "touches" over a month or two to truly get engagement.

There are multiple ways to do this, I personally have sent out direct mail in a few different fashions, and cold called as well.

I can't speak much about the Pittsburgh area, but I own multiple properties here in Columbus.

Doing anything at scale would likely take an act of congress, decades of litigation and environmental reviews, multiple huge overlapping federal bureaucracies working together, not to mention much of the available federal land is not useful for building housing on as it's in remote areas far from jobs with no water and sewer access, roads or infrastructure... so easier said than done. 

I created multiple LLCs using a registered agent company for $200 each.

@Max BellinoHolding company is really not needed unless you run multiple operational businesses like a property management firm, construction firm etc that you want to roll up into one entityHaving a holding company that holds one company you that owns real estate would have me question what’s the use case?

I've had multiple partnerships in my career.