Every contact I needed for insurance, mortgage and cleaners were done online, mostly through connections from BP. 

From my experience, to succeed in multifamily investing, focus on networking through local meetups, online forums, and professional connections, leveraging your CPA skills to analyze deals and optimize deductions.

Network (in-person events and online BP)3. 

Here, once you have an account and a bit of lending experience, you can access the online, fill-in-the-blank templates to create your own set of documents. 

I contacted that agency this week online & got a response they are not writing commercial properties now. 

Here is a calendy link if you wanted to chat on a zoom or call. https://calendly.com/trepador64/online-meeting

So here is what I do:1 - Get buyer criteria for what they are looking for (exact criteria)2 - Go source that criteria using data provider3 - Scrub the list and plan a marketing campaign around it (i.e) > Direct Mail > Cold Call > SMS > Online Ads > Social Media, etc4 - Once I get inbound leads coming in.

Where people went cheap with online brokers, many of those companies just did not have the resources or expertise is seemed in many instances to handle claims. 

Paying for an online course before you know other investors and have gone to meetups is just paying to procrastinate.

The majority of buyers appreciate the expertise that a good agent provides (local market knowledge that can only be gained by being active in the market buying and selling all the time, looking at most of the new listings in person or at least online daily, a background in or at least understanding of building construction, relationships within the network of professionals in the industry doing deals, vendor referrals, legal protection through E&O insurance and keeping up with constant changes in approved contracts and required disclosures and forms, negotiating skills (the average person is terrible at negotiating directly and has no desire to, I find Americans are uniquely averse to negotiating and prefer to outsource it but I digress), etc.).