Hope you can effectively tap into the network and add value thereafter!

After doing that you have to evaluate your resources (money, credit, network, friends/family, experience, etc.,) skill set (construction, raising money, networking, marketing, etc.,) amount of time you can commit, and if you are looking for active income or passive income.

After encountering close calls with poop 2 times, we decided to say no more on this DIY.

So perhaps I need to DIY it as I go along or I need to hire someone in-house to help keep it up?

I would definitely like to connect and network.

I am a flipper who is also interested in building a rental portfolio to gain financial independence. My experience is strictly flipping so I am wanting to learn more about finding the right rental property. What are s...

As of now we are building a team with people that we already know, we have recently realized the potential of our networks that we have unknowingly built. 

You need to network and create relationships with multifamily brokers and look for properties that have problems for you to solve.Everyone's underwriting is going to be affected with rising interest rates, prices will begin to fall.Gino

Is there any other route to starting to develop my own trusted network of contractors as I start out here?

When I began, I networked at every REIA I could find; we have so many great ones with incredible value and education and great investors with different levels of experience.