Newbie from Knoxville, TN

[Stone Pinckney]

Hello everyone! I'm a full-time MBA student at the University of Tennesee in Knoxville. With a potential career in medical devices (interning at Stryker this summer) I want to be strategic about my real estate investing when I start working full-time in January. BP has been an incredible resource thus far. I wanted to introduce myself and look forward to getting to know and learning from you all on here. Also thoughts on obtaining a real estate license this summer and trying to sell a few homes in the fall before graduating? I'll only have class 2 days a week. Cheers :-)

[Sean Tagge]

Hello @Stone Pinckney  

My opinion on getting a license would be to not get one since you will be working such a short time before you get your MBA and go into working full time. 95% of the stuff you learn in real estate school will not be used. My advice would be to focus that time instead on meeting other investors in your local market, looking for flip deals, buy and hold deals etc. Building your network. You could probably do 1-2 flips during this timeframe and net a much better return than selling a few houses and making a 3% commission as a realtor. 

These events below would be the first ones I would go to. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-events-and-happenings?utf8=%E2%9C%93&period=&zip_code=Knoxville%2C+TN&distance=25&commit=Search