Just basic face to face talks with people soon to be friends.

My current flip was bought from a wholesaler in a partnership with a builder friend of ours who has his own salaried framers, roofers, plumbers and electricians.  

Try being an agent, your phone number is EVERYWHERE and you get targeted by a whole industry that wants to sell you the latest gimmick.Here is what helped me.I answer calls and when it's a telemarketer I will interrupt them and say very friendly (because I don't hate the poor person who gets paid to do this and coached to be ruthless): Hey, so glad you called, can you do me a big favor? 

We are pet friendly and have some zeroscape backyards and have wording like "We are pet friendly with a fee, but please note although backyard is fenced there is no grass and certain areas contain crushed shell which could hurt your pets feet". 

I was in the middle of connecting with folks that biggerpockets found I was also friends with on Facebook.

Make friends with some bank presidents, seriously.

That may be a little too aggressive but I do enjoy landlord friendly states as opposed to the tenant friendly ones.

Cons:not as friendly for our family to use at the same time.

I hope to continue to network and make new friends in the real estate community.

Especially in a high interest rate environment where cash flows on long term rentals are muted and there is significant capital required to purchase and list on airbnb.I live near NYC but would invest out of state in an airbnb / landlord friendly state.