Recommendations for Pursuing a Real Estate career in WA

[Long Nguyen]

I want to become a full-time investor but I do not have any experience at all. However. I am really serious of getting into the real estate investing field. In the flipping book, it is recommending getting a real estate license. I've look it up and contacted some of the school around my area. One of the advisor was telling me about working as a salesperson at least 6 months in order to get income before getting my license. I was confused because I'm not familiar with the rules in real estate so I decided to ask you for some opinions.

Would you recommend getting the real estate pre-licensing and take the exam before get any experience?

Do you have any preference between taking the pre-license courses online or in class?

In WA state, real estate career have two paths, one is to become a real estate salesperson by getting 90clock hours. Second is after getting at least 2 years of experience, I can get the real estate broker license by taking the 120 clock hours. But do I need to get the broker license? Whats benefit do I have over the salesperson license?

For the MLS, do they charge every month or how is it work to enroll?

I hope someone can help me with these because I've looked online for any suggestions and opinions but I cant find any. I want to get my career going as soon as possible but don't know where to start now.

Thank you so much,

Long