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Real Estate License?
How do you more experienced investors feel about getting a real estate license? Is it worth the time and investment?
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Yes, especially since you're asking (and after reading your other replies). Having a license is a "key". It gives you access to a lot of logistics and people. Mortgage lenders, title companies, other agents, and most RE attorneys will speak with you differently. It's a form of access... and you can learn a boat load and it gets you in the game. How far you take it, and where it segues is up to you. When I started out in RE (as a sales agent), I only worked with investors... so naturally, buying my first investment property was easy.