I would also be curious if it was a big chain tax professional or your personal CPA? 

Are there any investors in the Vermont area looking to expand their portfolio and network?

There is some noise in this comment, but overall I appreciate it, especially on LinkedIn, where everything is an echo chamber of "I help create passive income for busy professionals", "Invest like the rich", "create financial freedom through real estate".  

While most medical professionals are good about planning for the future, the nature of how contracts get filled and where that takes the traveler often happen last minute. 

I’m looking for advice on networking locally.

Generally QI's cannot act as licensed tax professionals so this will need to be a conversation had with your CPA or licensed tax professional to get granular on the numbers. 

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Accountants are in such demand, that the best are not even accepting clients half the time.The other problem I see often with accountants on here is that they specialize in larger investors, and have really high prices when you as a smaller investor do not need all the bells and whistles.Another thing I see is folks thinking they need to have a tax professional in their state.

I wanted to be part of this community for networking and knowledge.

We have focus groups for mulit-family, flipping, landlording, and others where you can learn a lot of valuable information and network with other local investors.