Realtor AND Investor?

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Hi Everyone, 

I'm curious if any of you have an opinion about being both a practicing Realtor and a real estate investor. I know some people have a license only (no clients) in order to have a competitive advantage in buying their own properties, but are there pros and cons in both having clients and investing in your own property? Maybe there's already an obvious ruling on this that I'm not aware of, but would you lose clients? Would you lose trust? Or would you just broaden the scope of your success?