Student of real estate investing, flipping primarily, in TN

[Alysia Newsom]

Hello fellow investors and students of the trade. I began studying about real estate investing a few mo the ago. Im primarily interested in flipping for 2 reasons: I love to create and I have a family background in construction of all sorts. My goal is to leave my 9-5 job in the next 3 years. I'm curious if I should obtain a real estate license though? I realize it's not necessary; however, it could give me some advantages. I'm business minded and have made a few of my employers pretty wealthy. I figure it's soon time I take the risk and venture out on my own. Numbers make sense to me and I'm creative enough to think outside the box about things, my faults are I'm not as confident and out-going as I should be to build the right network of people to support my endeavors. But my husband is, however, he's not knowledgable about real estate or how money works. My location is one of fast pace growth, actually has been one of the top 5 fastest growing counties in the US for a while. Now with Nashville booming, it's really starting to pick up around here. Rent prices are on the rise and more and more nashville natives are moving this way to get away from the tourism.