Is your goal to use being an agent for your own personal investments or actively try and grow your agent business to eventually leave your W2?

I recommend that you engage with a real estate accountant to ensure you set everything up properly. 

He is a wealth of knowledge on the area and is actively investing locally as well.

I am new to Bigger Pockets and looking for opportunities to engage, discuss, and work with others in the field of REI.

Refinances are still active, slim pickings but some players are out there who are direct lenders, flip loans are also available (75-100K) min property other than conventional and gov backed loans.  

I have a template that I provide and they can either complete the template or just give me their documents and I'll complete the template before prepping the taxes.Self Managed, High Volume, Very Organized - these folks keep up on their activity. 

As you can see from our teams response on this thread, we are VERY engaged with our company and clients EVERY client matters, so you can understand when someone speaks poorly of our shop, especially when incorrect, they take it pretty personally.Second, you mentioned "a lot of people" who are not happy with our service.

5k a I don’t mind if it takes a few years, and I’m willing to be as actively involved as needed to achieve my goals.

Our community is actively identifying and investing in off-market deals, sharing the cost of virtual assistants and direct mail, sponsoring deals, investing our own capital, and having multiple group calls and webinars every week with institutional analysts, real estate and SEC attorneys, regional banks, private lenders, and other experts specifically to discuss and analyze deals within the community.

(You are automatically an affiliate when you sign up) That being said, I'm not a very active affiliate.