Or I still need to hang my license in one of the brokerage houses to do transactions? 

Shift to low hanging fruit.

I'm hanging on to it because the area shows some signs of improvement.

Hang in there....not all residential tenants are like that.

You found where all the cool people hang out. 

It looks like an actual confederate flag hanging on the wall but that's just the way the wall stained.

Has Trenton grown or does people go to Belleville to hang out

When I first started I kept a pretty good chunk of cash on hand - I've always been a bit of a money hoarder anyway - but at some point when the business ran itself I didn't have to do that any more - and, in fact, just hanging on to cash at .005% interest was counterproductive to building wealth.

If it's a good way to leave for relatively cheap, it's fine to hang on to without living entirely for free.

So I would go driving for dollars and hanging up bandit signs, I even did some door knocking on pre-foreclosures for them.