So your cash investment to be licensed is about $3k overall once you take all the nickel and diming into account (seems an endless stream of "fees" and "startup costs").When you purchase deals self-representing on the buyer side you will gain commission representing yourself. 

Hope you’re not in the petroleum stream!

Do you have any book/movie recommendations that I can check out to become more educated about real estate as a teen?

I am a big fan of co-op programs, having more than one income stream and young real estate investors.

Itll make traveling around the United States a tax deduction as well as bring income aside from my other income streams.

I have owner financed several properties and they have been a great, steady stream of income.

It is absolutely not for everyone.My personal feeling as a relatively new realtor is that due to the constant stream of investment it takes to have even a remote prayer of getting leads, I will be going back into a day job to fund those investments. 

Very stream lined process that is good for scaling a rental portfolio! 

I think it’s mostly because of lack of w2 or additional income stream.

So this ideology of let me build up my llc and show it as having cash by inserting cash into it or by having that llc generate cash uh you're gonna have to have a stabilized income for several years and be able to produce profit and loss statements that get a commercial lender to fund.Your deal okay normally that's going to come in the form of a soft money lender or a soft hard money lender right so this ideology of building a company that is going to be able to eventually borrow money for itself that's possible but not in one of the main streams of the market.