Hi folks - I am looking to make an investment in a long term buy to rent, looking at around the $200-250k purchase price mark , ideally a lower mtce townhouse, or condo, and looking for capital growth and solid returns with young professional tenants.

@Caleb Heimsoth $1000 referral fee may be needed for a professional but I bet most people you meet in the street or the garage or at the open house  or the guy at a construction site will be thrilled with $500.

I would welcome some insight from this professionals on this.My mother owns a home in brooklyn NY, and is about to retire next year.

If you only want to obtain your license to know more about real estate then perhaps it is not worth the effort as you could learn by just working with an experienced realtor and paying professionals for their time when you have a specific question. 

I've read various posts about what type of professionals to hire and gone through some courses on BP.If you know of a course/post that answers this question please refer it here.My goals are to wholesale properties I can't rehab, flip, and BRRR using private mortgage lenders in various states across the country.

**I am not a lawyer, financial or tax professional.**  My understanding through the professionals I have engaged, is that since i was 1) not a named beneficiary on the account, but received the account through the estate, and 2) have to take the distribution of the entire balance by the end of this year (5 years since my mother's passing) I have no ability to roll the account into another tax sheltered IRA, self directed or otherwise.

You will want to work with competent professional who can navigate you through these rules. 3.

These are professional investors. 

Offering your contract at public auction, in my opinion is a great way to gererate interest and to expose the property.As a professional auctioneer - depending on what price you are in for and what you will accept as a net-equity profit - I would suggest a reserve public auction (you'll have more participants if you do an absolute auction).Not all auctioneers are good at marketing real estate - you'll need to interview them - you'll need to know the following:how much advertising money do they want up front to market the property, commission, time frame, how many real estate deals have they done, are they honest, will they do an assignment, are they respected in the community, where will they market your deal, get references, are they authorized to conduct real estate auctions?

The NC home is a rental that rents well, cash flows (not much), and is professionally managed.