I feel getting a license would not only help with your flipping reputation, but would also aid the begining investor in the slow times and allow you to sub out your workers, make some money, and keep busy year around.Granted the long term goal is to flip more homes and I wouldn't have the time to sub out my workers as I would make more money on flips than contracting out.

Yep, it's a private club and you can't just get in without drinking their kool-aid.

Nevertheless, you might want to contact a tenant legal aid lawyer to see if they have any ideas on how to negotiate with your landlord to get to a reasonable resolution.

Also, your local community college will have RE classes for a small cost and can even get fin aid to either pay for the full costs or partial. 

Proper screening is extremely important to aid in the efficient operation of your business.

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If I may add, Never by no means ever waterproof or try and correct the issue with interior drainage systems, think about it your still allowing moisture in the basement, if anything now your increasing moisture from entering into the dwelling because now you just exposed below the foundation floor, its a cheap way of putting a i guess you can say band aid on a more serious issue.

But drinking the Kool Aid and jumping off the deep end doesn't help anyone. 

We've had their clients defend this mess while they continued to drink the kool aid and argue with us in forums about how we didn't understand what was going on and how Clayton was going to take care of them.

However if you’re okay with pit toilets, septic systems, solar panels and generators, flying to Houston or going up to Mexico for healthcare, and don’t care about shopping then these obstacles are easily overcome.