For your first few deals, not obtaining your license just yet would allow you to concentrate on other things, specifically managing contractors and locking down a system with your partners.b.)

I suggest that instead of concentrating in the property you should concentrate in the deal.

Although I have no problems with my rental in that area, I am now only buying close to where I live as I have explained below.I have so far limited my future investments to subsets of 19149, 19120 and 19111, only because these are near where I live, I know these neighborhood well, houses can be bought for between 70 and 120K (the pockets I concentrate on) and rent for 900 to 1200 a month.

For right now we are going to concentrate on wholesaling.

Are you concentrating your efforts in certain neighborhoods, or are you more opportunistic and taking whatever deals pop up?

@Jeff Stone I think you ARE an investor already and perhaps before venturing into additional properties you may do well concentrating on making those minor repairs and getting a non-family renter in.

Concentrate on rental properties and leave the SFHs to the irrational emotion driven home buyers.Your efforts would be better served if you concentrate on purpose built rental properties.

Seems to be my concentration also since west side is too expensive for cash flow for rentals (idk about flips), and the east side is more of  a D area.  

Our plan is to focus on multifamlies and we have concentrated our search there for the most part.  

It can be a very rewarding career and you will probably see many opportunities over time to become an investor yourself.If you are planning to become a full time agent, most of the super successful agents concentrate on working with property owners and getting listings.