As my wife and I expand we want to establish relationships rather than using people to accomplish singular projects.

We have a good relationship with the tenants and are trying to get them rental assistance money through the state, which has been a never ending waiting game since early September when we put the application in. 

I love to read some insight on best practices when wanting to build relationships with quality wholesalers and how to find them within my Philly market?

In our case, we are working with a local architect and engineer that have close relationships with the city and the area of town.

Deal was financed through a hard money lender that we developed a relationship with.

They are more likely to want to build the relationship for future business.

I'm planning on going to real estate meetups in the area (I'm in Austin, TX), does anyone have any tips for starting conversation/building relationships as I'm just starting out at these events?

You want to develop a relationship and not be the Out of Town once in a while client. 

But of course Realtors want to establish a working relationship where they invest their time looking, evaluating and commenting on properties for investors in the hopes that investor will buy through them.

But the biggest part of my success has been creating relationships with lenders, lawyers, and investors.Thank you for reading my post and the support.