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Real Estate License Pros vs Cons
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If your wife is an agent she can send you every deal that comes across MLS. Realistically though, you aren't going to find your deals through MLS. If it's already there, it's likely been vetted by an agent that could have made a deal on his own before listing it. That's not to say there aren't deals on MLS but they are rare. I'm talking about wholesaling mainly and also flipping. The RE license is great (I have mine) but I don't really wholesale and I think there is the potential for you as a RE agent to create a conflict of interest as well as an ethics violation to make a deal with a seller to put their property under agreement for a lesser value than you can sell it for a profit. You will have to justify to him why as a licensed professional you are advising him that he should sell it for the lesser value. You must disclose you are licensed when you meet the homeowner for the first time. They may not care that you are giving them a quick deal and flipping it for more money but it wouldn't sit well with me if I was the Seller. Your wife acting as your agent separates you from the process. Maybe I'm way off but that's my thought. Maybe @Brian Ortins can chime in. He's an investor and a licensed agent here in MA. We just worked on a deal together.