I was talking about approaching and establishing a relationship with your local community bank/ banker.. 

After establishing a trust with a local bank, our future deals will be easier to finance.

I can provide examples of work upon request.I would love to help anyone out however I can in exchange for the experience it provides and connections I can establish through working in the industry.

You already made a great first step by establishing a drop dead date to begin so follow that up with massive action and you will do well.

I recommend reaching out to the big REO agents in the area they might have a connection with the asset manager and could possibly give you more info, but this is hard unless your a big player and have established a relationship. 

Will they offer me a loan after having multiple accounts with them and establishing a line of credit with them?

Once you get your foot in the door and have established yourself, people, including banks will throw money at you for business opportunities.

I would start by asking the agent what type of experience they have with *whatever you are looking for* (investment property, out of state investors, buy and hold, brrrr, etc) Once you have established that they are able to handle what you are looking to do, you are good to go! 

Though it doesn't seem like an established REI metric.I did pull crime data on NYC and tried to filter for "neighborhood" crime activity and see if there was any signal there related to the rent indexes but didn't come up with anything telling, maybe that's just NY.

The requirement is that you be conducting a "trade or business" as that term is established under IRC 162.