But the majority of the time, doing the active diligence can ultimately provide the best experience for any placed tenant which in turn will ultimately help yourself, if a property manager, maintain a healthy relationship with your portfolio of owners going forward for them. 

The sharks at the meetups will be obvious avoid them and build relationship with everyone else.

As with any customer relationship, across all verticals, the number one thing is to set appropriate expectations followed by communication.  

Build the relationship with them.

Sounds like a risk to your relationship.

I have since created a relationship with one of the in-house attorneys at Royal Legal and go directly to her, she is great.2.

The SECOND most critical thing to me is to have a great relationship with the tenants.

I told him he has 24 hours to send me the remainder as I'm not floating a dollar for him given the state of the relationship.

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is an agreement document that creates a confidential relationship between parties who will be exchanging confidential information.

You don't want to rush to partner just to get your next property.If I was new again now and didn't have the capital to get my second one, I would go to every meetup in my area, meet other investors, and build relationships.