I'm so glad that a friend suggested I check out Bigger Pockets, and I look forward to engaging in this community!

The cost of engaging a Selling Broker (a Realtor in your corner) is not a cost borne by you and their compensation is typically set by and paid for from the Seller's funds. 

Or you may be married/ engaged by this time.

I am excited to engage with this awesome community and learn more about investing in real estate.

My group is engaged in residential rentals under an LLC and we've been struggling to find portfolio lenders in the Bay Area California with reasonable terms.

Engaging a broker will free up your time to focus on your business, and may even lead to other opportunities if you find the right broker.

I partnered with a third party inspection and certification company who has been successful in getting building officials to sign off on their processes that combine many IRC requirements and ANSI code.I'm also working with the Tiny Home Industry Association, who is a group of diverse individuals, (https://www.tinyhomeindustryassociation.org/board-of-directors/) working to engage the appropriate regulatory bodies like the IRC, IBC, ANSI, NFPA, etc. to start developing tiny house specific code.

I am also in the New Haven area and just became engaged with some meetup groups in the central CT area.   

The upside to making this shift in my opinion is again the experience in marketing, engaging with customers(buyers/sellers), and surrounding myself with other like minded people.The downside is, at a starting position in a marketing department, I'd be lucky to earn half(or maybe even less than half) of my current income!

I recommend you read partnership/operating templates online to get familiar with them, then engage a business attorney and tax professional to help dial everything in.