It's a low bar to entry, your family has experience in real estate, and you can learn while you are in college.

First, call your local bar and ask them whether there have been any recent seminars on real estate law.

This will also tell you where the bar is set by your competition because that ultimately will tell you what kind of furnishings and amendments you'll need in order to be competitive.

Two CPAs, a Specialist, and an Advisor walk into a bar..."

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Hello BP Network,I will be admitted to the NY bar soon, which means I can bypass most of the requirements for opening up a real estate brokerage.

I am licensed as a broker in two states and in NY I was able to waive into my license with a current attorney bar card so you might want to check on that as well.If your eye is to working with investors and management, look up Chantal Duame at Good Neighbor Realty.

What's relatively new is the tech that has exposed the str opportunity to every sfr and lowered the bar to entry.

Originally posted by @Linda Bar:@Tom Jensen, does it make sense to use the whole life insurance cash value for down payment, being that you have to repay it with a significant interestIt does if the insurance company pays you more significant interest than you pay them.  

The last time I took it, it had a pass rate of only 12%, harder than the State Bar exam.