If you have the skills, capital, resources, and most importantly TIME to be an active investor in order to locate the "better" deals in your area then that may be the right strategy for you.

Now I want to focus in developing skills as a Real Estate Agent, together with reaching my own investment goals and helping fellow investors to achieve theirs.   

Even if you strip out all the soft benefits, it's obvious that if you can trade something ( like your time), for something of much greater value (community goodwill, great PR, marketing photos, etc.) its a beneficial transaction!

Many people here use hard money lender versus soft money lender which is completely wrong.

This would take an 1/2 way skilled attorney less and 2 hours to setup and the best attorney's in the biggest cities usually only charge in the range of $500 per hour ..

Desk jobs do not sound appealing so kind of leaning toward a skilled trade that would work well with rehabbing (HVAC, Electrician, Carpentry etc.).

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However your cognitive skills are flawed.

I also met another broker in person with a similar skill set of finding TLC homes.

@Adam Goldberg Not sure what her skill set is, but these days there are plenty of work-from-home opportunities that stay-at-home moms are doing well at.