If you go into property management you will only learn property management, if you go work for a contractor you will learn about construction,  if you go work for  a wholesaler you will learn about marketing and sales, if you want to learn about underwriting or lending go work for a bank, etc etc.It really depends on what aspect of real estate you want to focus on. 

Those are the people who will buy from you and sell to you as well as help you with all aspects of your investing.Good luck to you!

The current tenant already qualified for the financial aspect so you should be covered there.

@John Warren I agree with the local aspect a local real estate agent that recently went to a Boston conference for investors and told me that in Florida the market has yet to reach its peak.

It gives a more professional feel to everything you do, and it makes rent increases and many other aspects of being a landlord MUCH easier.

They know how to find every little thing and know what stuff cost to get done, but you should always be able to get it done for slightly less (10%).Its more work to "set up a team", but holy cow is it an amazing feeling to have a routine to most aspects of your business.

Although I have some income from direct marketing and book sales, for many years 95% or more has come from real estate but different aspects of it like rentals, flips, holding paper and managing/contracting.

One of my favorite entertaining aspects to do when I can is to find a real estate seminar in my area and find out how many of those people are there because they see it on TV and think to myself I can do that- how wrong is that mentality.

There's some finer details in MLS, but not needed unless you were deep diving a specific property and by then it'd likely be to where you're trying to get it under contract.... which would mean you'd have a agent.

There's also the aspect of lowering your tax obligation, which may or may not be significant, depending on your tax bracket.