I'm looking to connect with local investors for meetups, collaboration, and sharing valuable insights.

The 734 “votes” (relative to 660 posts) tell me that you, on average do a great job posting valuable information to users on these forums, and on a regular basis. 

Timing can sometimes be as valuable as improvements in this business.

In today's day and age of social media, the Internet and super catchy reels and videos, attracting your attention to higher returns, promising life changing strategies and tips on how to quit your 9 to 5 job; A lot of...

This team consists of an Investor Focused Agent, Lender, Contractor, and PM.Read this article on the "core 4".

Dave cool article but there  are other benefits like ability to get Loans based on the STR etc which you can use to scale up.

The bookstore has some great books and the podcast is full of valuable information.

That is what I did here when I started investing in 2020.Here is an article with more information on what a house hack is www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/house-hacking

The appraisal price estimation I imagine the price estimate is the most valuable but when it is at value are there any other details in the appraisal report that can be used for a price reduction?

I think the best analogy is to treat them like employees and here is why: you treat good employees well, they are very valuable to your business.