I am guessing that anyone who buys without being in an area or buying site unseen has someone who they believe is both knowledgeable, trustworthy, and looking out for their interests in the area to do the same type of stuff that you would do yourself.

If you know them well enough, they are likely to give a trustworthy referral.Do the same with LinkedIn.

@Christopher Fougere welcome to BP nation.Listen to podcast under the " learn " tab, research your market,and locate a trustworthy team. 

Experienced investors who are known quantities AND pleasant and trustworthy people to do business with will get "expensive" but very feasible prices for money.If you want 6% - 8% for five years better talk to your Aunt Sally.

I currently work for a rather large publicly traded REIT but am really interested in getting into real estate investing pretty aggressively for personal income.I would like to build some trustworthy relationships with some experienced or seasoned "future" team members so that we all can have win win situations.

In day to day business dealings, people want to know about you as a person, are your trustworthy, what's your credit say about you, and can you actually run a business.

It can be done from a distance with a trustworthy person.Obviously, finding one isn't that easy but we don't have a large enough portfolio to worry about hiring a PM company.

Does anybody know a trustworthy broker that specializes in multifamily in Florida?

Imagine though if the buyers were not a trustworthy family and if they happened upon the checkbooks, and no Realtor came over to check on the place... identity theft is a huge problem as we all know.

I filled out the form on realtors.com to be contacted about a property. Someone called me back who was not the listing agent. They said they r a broker but they work for realtors.com. I don't get that...anyone who ...