I just checked Google and the population of the Municipality of Anchorage, which is the greatest concentration of jobs, real estate, commerce etc. is almost 301,000. 

Is the effort to DIY proportional to your other marketing efforts and spending time concentrating on finding investment deals?

I concentrate heavily on the new multi-use developments in the downtown area including Crossroads West (Cityscape Residential @ SW Blvd & I 35), the 27th & Gilham development (Milhaus/TITANBuilt), Berkley Riverfront(MW Builders).I am very interested in the revitalization of Kansas City, MO.

It is an impoverished community (one of the worst in the city) with a high concentration of subsidized housing.

Wealth is more and more concentrated, to a point now greater than much of the history of the US.

My initial plan was to obtain the license but now I am putting that on hold to concentrate primarily on investing.

Trying to accelerate my wealth-building and need a lot of money to get into apartment deals, but worried I am passing up employer matching and concentrating all my assets into one sector.Maybe I just need to throttle back and slow down a little to make sure I'm not over-exposing myself to risk and have something to fall back on in case something goes wrong in the RE.

However, concentrating on commercial such as medical offices, as well as other commercial that amazon won't touch there will always be demand.

I would strongly advise you spend your primary efforts toward getting approval and then concentrate on generating financial support.

Doesn't matter what sector of RE one is in, everything is correlated.a friend and I have a saying, "trust the vendor, trust the numbers"we cannot decide on an individual basis whether or not an investment makes sense, but we can as much as possible vet the people behind the investment, and if they have a good track record and seem to be on the ball about their projections (conservative forecasting, and concentrating on return of capital first and foremost) , we can trust the numbers they present to a degree but syndication investing is still not truly passive, but it is the closest we come to it in REI