Any licensing? 

Here’s my honest advise; consider studying for and obtaining your real estate sales license, and obtain a part time position with a real estate agency that will provide training, guidance, and oversight.  

If this new bill passes, their bill would jump to $9,800/year. 

I had already been in real estate for 5 years and thought I had seen it all.  

In the six years I've owned, operated and sold vacation rentals on the Oregon Coast the investment landscape has evolved considerably. 

Avantstay has a whole licensing department.

Disclaimer: While I’m a licensed attorney, I’m not your attorney.

I don't know about your state but mine (TN) has a lookup tool that will show you the agent's original license date, the brokerage incorporation date, etc. 

If so they may have a real estate license or they may work with an agent that relies on repeat business rather than a one-off purchase. 

2) Their contractor must be properly licensed and insured and we require copies of all this.