ways to meet such people would be meetups, or simply walking into some smaller offices, could also ask around to other owners of the assets you are interested in and see who helps them. 

Trying to decide what is next as we scale.  

I would decide on what strategy you like more.

I'm a business owner in Denver metro and looking to start investing in markets outside of Colorado. 

This allows us to save time for you as a resident and save money for the owner of the property. 

You might try corporate housing by owner, or try getting in contact with some insurance companies for replacement housing, or traveling work-crews, etc. 

That is up for me to decide.  

We had to move fast and initially decided to sell it, the relator who was helping us somehow convinced us we should make it a rental property......... and let her be our tenant (insert face palm here) so since we had no real estate experience and we were already moved away, we agreed.

In this example the initial investment would be $50,000.So the owner of the IRA would have to pay 37% in taxes seems to negate the interest paid of 12.5% annually.Do I have this correct?

I think that is absolutely right path for the big owners like you.