There are plenty of benefits associated with building strong realtor relationships, but you will be sent a ton of "land development" opportunities and most will trip you up if you aren't careful.

You should be building relationships and not worried about a referral fee.If you are in the business, like real estate agent to real estate agent, or lender in one state to lender in another, a referral percentage is expected, but I don't see any of that.

I've developed some great relationships and also a business partner from these meetings.

My goal is to invest in real estate, and I believe that building relationships with successful and knowledgeable individuals is crucial to achieving that.I'm currently studying to get my real estate license.

Once you get emotional it will cause relationship problems.3.

It's all about personal relationships with productive agents.

Push relationship-building and learning and make sure that your current house hack is getting fine-tuned all the time.

No, it's separate - they are looking to have an exclusive agent relationship in that county for a year.  

Some of my banking relationships are old and need reviewing. 

Build a relationship with one that you know you can trust to give you good estimates, and it will make decision making a lot easier.