Financing problems would be universal and not particular to one area. 

Thank for the warm welcome. 

that's all I have done my entire adult life since I was first licensed at 18.. there is a difference in being a retail real estate sales person and using a license to further your investing goals.Its not an easy business by any means to be a retail agent and there is a high burn out rate.. not as high as wholesalers but its at least 50%...If your an ACTIVE investor I cant see how you can do without it.. if your fix and flipping in my mind its mandatory.its about 2k a year to keep sometimes less and If your business does not allow that or like some say the cost is to high then in my mind your not really in the business its a pittance to spend to have access to all the info and be in the club.if your goal is to be a lifelong landlord then work for a commercial brokerage that specializes in cash flow real estate just being there will open up doors.if by chance your very good at sales and have a very large warm market you may shock yourself in how much money you can make just in transactional real estate.. 

Graduate of Texas A&M University. 

My wife and I have rented out a 2 bedroom home near Radford University for the past 8 years and are looking to buy another property in the area. 

Thank you all for the warm welcome. 

We are in the San Elijo neighborhood, just down the round from the university.

Only the hot air comes out and because it’s a 2 story house, it’s very warm on the second floor.The Re-Max property managers are unresponsive & very disorganized.

In universities and libraries are thousands of "gurus" who write about the theory and when you check they never had to do any of the work and be responsible for the results.)

My "day job" is currently as a graduate student at Thomas Jefferson University, and I spend a lot of my free time in educating myself of the ways of real estate.