Dallas-Fort Worth investor considering license

[Zacharias Salva]

Good morning bigger pockets forum! I guess you could say I have been in the real estate investing game since I was around 25 years old… My first investment involved buying a house outside of the army base that I was stationed at and having several of my roommates live with me to essentially pay the mortgage. Fast forward to five years later and I still only own one long-term real estate position. However, my wife and I have become students of this game and for the last several months have saved our butts off in order to come up with the money for our first multi family investment in Dallas Fort Worth. We live in the Allen area currently and are still searching for the right property, but in the meantime I have been thinking seriously about obtaining my real estate license. I happen to enjoy my current career in enterprise tech sales and wouldn't want to do anything that would jeopardize it. However, I have a passion for real estate just like I do with technology and I'm thinking that if I can sell one house per year in Dallas Fort Worth along with being able to purchase additional investment properties ourselves without involving a buyers agent, that would be enough to justify obtaining a license....or would it? What do you all think? And by the way, if anyone in this community who lives in DFW would be interested in meeting for coffee, I would be much obliged!