Also want to add that she had multiple violations such as having a dog with her while her contract states no pets and she was contacting repair facilities and acting as my agent or pretending to be a property owner and interfering with repair process. 

You can grow your network of not only other investors who could potentially become partners if you bring them a good deal, but you could meet real estate agents there who may have clients looking for partners on deals.

I’m trying to assess which neighborhoods might have the best rental demand and growth potential, but I’m not sure I’m covering all the bases when It comes to pre-foreclosures and foreclosures.I’ve also been wondering how essential it is to work with a real estate agent or wholesaler when identifying opportunistic distressed properties.

I'm biased and can provide reasons and data to show that using an agent will protect you, get you more money, less stress and so on.The reality is you can do it yourself, but tenants generally don't cooperate with showings and that causes lots of problems for buyer to access the unit to show, inspections, appraisals etc.

Connecting with local real estate agents, property managers, and contractors can provide insights into market trends and help streamline project management.

SupplyLas Vegas is unique because it is a tiny island of privately owned land in an ocean of federal land.

Your agent should be able to provide all off this for you and more, this is just my .02.    

You can certainly ask the agent who helped you purchase the property for advice too ;)Since you are using a PM to run things, I don't see any need to meet anyone except your PM and the contractor/handyman you plan on using for repairs/updates.

Federal law.

Only downside is they don’t have much multi family from what I was told from an agent.