Lending is a business based on relationships, Isaac; as is most business.

My husband Corey and I currently own a condo, a historic church and a single family home, all of which we rehabbed and I now Airbnb.

I am a local investor in the Pittsburgh PA market and am looking to build relationships with investors and lenders.

There is no agency relationship since the contract expired. 

It lowers your tax burden, you can allocate assets across other investments and diversify and as @Matt K. is right, historically 8.0% is about what you can expect on a mortgage so getting 5.5-6.0% is historically cheap money.

If you have a prop mgr in the state you are buying the prop in and after you have a good relationship with him/her you can use him/her as your RA if you want to save that yearly expense

I am more looking for ways to connect with these groups/investors and start to create relationships.

Unfortunately, the level of technical support that you are requesting is beyond our individual expertise, the service scope of our business, and the provisions of the legacy lease that governs your and [Tenant's] contractual relationship with Parabola, LLC.

This led to the development of many strong relationships and a network of talented individuals.

If they're smaller operations and don't have this readily available, maybe you can get copies of their historical rent rolls and create it yourself.