Good Morning,
I'm new to active Bigger Pockets community. I am hoping to like many others build up a good retirement through real estate and are looking for opportunities to learn good practices, soft skills and gain...

I'd really appreciate any advice, connections, or recommendations for a local agent.

would I recommend that to a brand new investor? 

@Jack Honroth, to piggyback off of Nicholas, I highly recommend that you house-hack your first deal.

I'm accustomed to the regulations on LTR, but not sure about MTR.Are there any resources you can recommend?

as a single property owner, do not want to pay full price as there may not much of need of reports, looking for state specific lease and ACH/Zelle/paypal kind of payment options for application fee and Rent collection. any recommendation on which plan would be best?

I don't generally recommend them, but in my younger days, I've written one for myself.

We have recommendations for our clients and provide support for those institutions that don't make it seamless.

Does anyone have any other recommendations?

My recommendation is unless there is a REALLY good reason for doing LLC units instead...just buy the assets.