Street lights, pot hole maintenance, water quality, sewers and hospitals... are vital to safety and the value of your real estate.

Investing with a syndicator, ESPECIALLY anyone doing any form of outbound marketing or with a big social media presence, should be done only be experts who are skilled in evaluating sponsors (dozens or hundreds of due diligence repetitions and hundreds of hours of self study.If that doesn’t fit the bill start studying.

Any general contractors, carpenters, handymen that cover a wide range of skills? 

Initially, we began by working with builders as a small crew of hands-on guys doing the work ourselves, but as we grew, we realized that builders faced various problems such as poor workmanship, communication issues due to language barriers, laziness of workers, and high turnover of “skilled” labor.

I am definitely grateful for the accounting experience I am getting but am just considering some other possibilities where I can get some more valuable skills/ exposure to real estate in my day job that will benefit me in real estate investing.  

Those folks need to work on their underwriting skills. 

They can sharpen skills you already have, or expose you to things you've never even thought of.

I tried to join a team, and it helped me sharpen my skills a lot.

People will leverage your knowledge, experience, money, market research, or handy man skills and offer something in return. 

They can sharpen skills you already have, or expose you to things you've never even thought of.