Will gladly work with her again if I have anything where a Realtor adds value - she's local, knows the properties and the people involved.

But I don’t want to trade my time managing a business for a relatively small net income.The mistake many people make is comparing a real estate investment returns with a real estate business returns.  

I am looking to purchase a residential or commercial multi family in the Sherman/Dennison TX area. I am also open to partnering on a transaction.  Can anyone suggest and agent or property manager that can help me with...

Try to find people who are where you want to be and then just copy them, what do/did they do to get there and do the same thing. 

Speaking from personal experience.Fine to say it’s not your personal cup of tea, but no need to scare people off with talk of serial killers.

Quote from @Drew Sygit: It's like first responders: people don't really care about what they do until they need them. 

However, I haven’t found many examples of people doing this in that area.

I can see many people's recommendations in the other thread being focused on house hacking, which makes sense to me. 

We often advise people to house hack when getting started and you are a real success story!

Shea, great question—because real estate investing isn’t what most people think it is.