Experience can be borrowed, and it sounds like you're already planning on building relationships with property managers and bankers.

My favorite resources (in no particular order) for operating and syndicating funds have been:-talking to syndicators like @Brian Burke @Ivan Barratt @joe fairless @todd Dexheimer-listening to MF podcasts like @Gino Barbaro's Wheelbarrow Profits, Michael Blanks, Joe Fairless-reading all of the content on the sites of the above mentioned-networking like crazy and talking to as many people as possible including apartment investors, bankers, brokers, insurance agents, etc.

When you hear bankers talking about how they can give you a better deal after you have built up a relationship, be wary.

I was fortunate enough to meet a banker named Jane who believed in me from the beginning.

Though that was the decision by the NV Supreme Court, the bankers are working to overturn it legislatively, and retroactively.

Realtors, bankers, and the BP community with experience with buying and selling primary residences simultaneously:My parents are looking to downsize their current home.

Your lender, broker, lawyer, banker or partner should all have sufficient experience in the real estate rehabbing and investment field, to help provide you the information you need to be successful.

It prevents collusion between a banker, buyer, and appraiser to create an artificially high valuation.

I think for most of us newbies in REI, that securing a loan from a banker, while time consuming, is probably easier than the harder to quantify steps of finding private lenders and convincing them we know what the heck we are talking about.I'm sure that after a couple of successful deals, I or other investors could go to lenders like yourself for funding - that's not an option for many newbies.  

A Wells Fargo banker is who told me I would need the commercial loan.