Long story short, the relationship was damaged and I think it would be best for them to move as soon as possible.

My business partner and myself are trying to build and maintain relationships to further grow our business as well offer our services to ensure the quality of your properties or potential listings.

Good management companies have relationships with local contractors you can often leverage to ensure quality work is done on your property which can be a challenge when you're an out of state investor.

For the sake of simplicity, let's just call them the buyer and seller, since that's what (hopefully) ends up being the relationship. 

My belief is that investors need to create solid relationships with local investment friendly lenders.

My two pennies as I also get this engine underway..You definitely have more than enough to start, may be wholesaling to a flipper and staying on the deal to get your hands dirty for less of a fee, analyzing deals and getting comfy with the tools, building relationships with local lending partners ( I had 6 is a good number to start with, varying banking types), learning their criteria, running different scenarios by them etc.

Relationships are key so you don't want to blow it with a good contractor by asking for bids for free on deals you don't have locked up.

Working for my cousin in San Diego (painting contractor) I‘ve seen the difference between people that shop for the cheapest price and live for the day, and people that want to build a business relationship.

Get in touch with local banks and start building new relationships, etc.

This really sounds like a deal for your local banking relationship.