If you are buying a property, the agent should only ask (if they do at all) to see your ID to verify your human and then only if they are providing you with access to viewing homes on your own.

Don't just learn about Real Estate, also learn about construction - go to Home Depot every Saturday and take their tiling and painting classes (for free), volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity jobsite to do cleanup and just pay attention and ask questions.

The fact is you will never know it 100% and you will get caught up in analysis paralysis which human nature finds very boring after awhile.  

We have also been Fleetwood and Nashua home dealers.

When we are asked as the owner if I am licensed and I say no every attorney or broker dealer says “that’s smart”.

The greatest delusion ever pulled off in human history thus far is the notion that $ goes to Wall Street to INVEST, to GROW, to RETURN, to PROFIT...... 

Here's one I received on an equipment dealer that's been in business for 70 years. 

I went to their office a few weeks ago and spoke to the lady that handles the fifas, because I have a house next to one of mine, that is full of prostitutes and drug dealers and it's still in the name of the deceased owner and her taxes are $ 30 per year or so.

Maybe it's a human nature thing and I evolved from some other strain of extinct Neanderthal that made decisions based on need rather than social acceptance.

Your pay-day lender has a license, so will a pawn broker, car dealer, or a venture capital firm.