Worth getting Real Estate License for personal investments?

[Sarah Jukes]

Has anyone got their Real Estate License primarily to benefit your own investments? To save on the commission, to gain more contacts etc? Here in CA 6% is a big chunk of money, we fixed up our first investment property and decided to rent it out. To sell it would have cost $42,000 in Realtor fees! (renting it out is going great so that worked out for us). 

Also, to gain better access to the real estate world, contacts, listings, knowledge etc?? I would also aim to work as a Realtor at least to make those connections....