I currently work for a luxury building materials company and my commute is about an hour and a half each way every day.

The buyer can build a relationship with any agent he or she likes.

My other goal and his is to build generational wealth.

@Danielle Lynch   Regardless of the market you decide to go with in Flordia start with a 2-4 unit and build your team and then scale from there. 

If you have the time to commit to looking for off market deals, you can certainly find some opportunity to build up capital.

Lack of 3 unit buildings in area How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

Or is there anyone that would potentially wanna sit down and join my LLC as a lender and we can discuss terms and build a connection and do good business together! 

We are new to real estate investing and trying to figure out if it would be better to buy a home in our area or focus on building up an out of state portfolio.

I think in general what could be happening is that there is some sort of "preferential attachment" where the best deals, the most houses, go to a relatively smaller amount of people a part of the right firms or have spent many years building contacts and expertise. 

You introduced me to Croghan for our office building, right?