I'm new! Real Estate Agent liscense, yes or no?

[Albert Tisaire Ventura]

Hi!

I'm new writing in the BP's forum and I have soooo many questions to ask, but I guess that I will be posting them in many other occasions. I will try not taking too much time from you!

My name is Albert and I'm an architecture student coming from Barcelona, Spain, and I'm currently working in an architecture office in Chicago. I've been studying in the USA for one year and it's been time enough to learn many things that I didn't know before. One of those is Real Estate! I took a subject called Introduction to Real Estate during the fall semester, and I enjoyed it so much that it changed completely what I wanted to do in the future. Since then, I couldn't stop reading books, articles and learning as much as I could.

But I feel like I need to learn more and feel more confident before acting or taking the first step. I've been thinking of going to a grad school but that's a lot of time and money that could be invested in a better way, or taking some courses that could bring me a broad perspective of this world.

So my first question is, should I take a course to get licensed as a Real Estate Agent? I don't want to work as an agent, I'm interested in investing, but I don't know if it would give me a lot of knowledge and some tools for valuations, finding opportunities, making deals, laws, taxes... Some people told me to do so (like in the first podcasts of BP), and some other told me not.

I want to take the right path to succeed, and as I still don't know a lot of people here, I want to learn as much as possible from any source I find. Any advice would be very appreciated!

Thank you for your time!