A taxpayer who engages in frequent and substantial sales is almost inevitably engaged in the real estate business.

Your post caught my eye since you mention markets that I am heavily engaged in.

However, I've noticed that as I share (in story or private message) or "like" more Pro Constitution/Anti Big Government type posts that my engagement goes way down meaning fewer people have my stories come up in their feed, come across my posts, etc. 

Challenges: I was doing it basically on my own with no family to guide me, my realtor was not as engaged as I would have liked.

So the agents these days are Taught to put this one their cell phone  " Thank you for calling for faster service please text me "  well that ends it for me :)  the few times i try to engage in a text conversation I just get way to frustrated its too slow. theres no personal inflection I want to talk to agents to feel out If I think there is a light bulb on or if they are suitable for my needs I can do that quite quickly on the phone.So to answer the OP  I am not sure what you do to get anyones attention these days in the go go text dont talk modern world. 

Will we have to engage a RMLO?  

I’ve only been engaged for maybe a month now and have learned so much in that small bit of time.  

Thanks everyone in advance and looking forward to becoming more engaged in this community!

My advice would be to narrow down where you want to buy before you start engaging agents.

Multifamily is not actually passive, and someone will need to be engaged in the property even if it is just managing the manager.