I have a hate-love relationship with Connecticut.

Once you learn of those developers in the community you'll then begin to be able to create relationships with those individuals and start to invest in the commercial deals. 

Based on my strategy (that I call Relationship Wholesaling), when you're building a strong relationship with the Seller and really crafting a custom proposal that meets their needs, there's little need to "discuss it" with them (ie talk about it at length or make a big deal of it). 

If you do decide to outsource your accounting needs, then go with a CPA that you can develop a relationship with, to get the most out out having to pay fees.

. #1 find a good lender that you can build a relationship with and ask them questions.

What I wrote above does not create an attorney/client relationship between us.

Remember, real estate investing / construction / this industry as a whole are about building relationships, so treat people with respect and those relationships will grow well. 

I would recommend searching for a broker to create a relationship with.

Depending on your relationship with them, that might be feasible, but if you're just picking up someone you don't know personally, you could bring the productiveness of the investment down because you'll both occupy unit(s).Side jobs won't really do much until you are at that side job for a sufficient duration of time - it may be 2-years.

I have a good relationship established with the home-owner.