I kept my license active though and bought my first house hack 7 years later and then 3 years after that I was a full time investor and started my own brokerage firm. 

In addition, conducting thorough research and making direct contact with the company can increase your chances of reaching the appropriate individual.Additionally, locate the nearby office for the brokerage firms mentioned, and subscribe to their email list to stay updated on new and existing deals. 

What we do know about you is that you and your firm claim credit for projects that appear to be the work of others.

It seems like a hard money lender typically a private individual or venture firm) would be the only route to go since they are a little more lax on lending requirements than a conventional lender.

I looked up their address and it was to a CPA firm in IL. 

We have some firm rules.

(In TN, a PM firm may be owned/run by an unlicensed person - as long as there is a licensed broker registered for it with TREC.

I have aspirations to want to become a real estate investor one day but would love to learn the game through working for an investor or investing firm of some sort but I know for a fact that I don’t want to become a realtor.

Unless there is a firm job offer at the other side of my military obligation, paying down a mortgage is not a good use of my funds because I can’t access that money again.  

When a demand letter from a firm goes out, it changes the game from checkers to chess.