Sounds like you should just skip the realtor's license unless you can go all the way and do the broker license or you can find a realtor that will work with you a little.My guess is it would depend on your model.

DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP. you will know why when you start!

@John Boring Hello John, the main thing that I do is skip trace absentee lists and cold call the leads on it. 

How can I incorporate skip tracing into my campaign?

They seem to want to skip the working hard part and jump straight to the getting paid passively part.I discourage this.

The biggest problem is you can only run information on what they put into the application and so they can skip or only fill out minimal information thereby you don't get a full background on them

If you're an agent you can do a 6 month search for all the cash closings in your area Some will be name some LLC's skip trace those or send a letter Call Bandit signs if any Networking events You can also do an MLS search and under purchaser look for "contract Vendee" aka wholesaling 

Personally I would rather skip the rigmarole and just get a fair, transparent price, but I understand that's not very realistic. 

That is the "wise" thing to do.In theory yes.But imagine this.I get about 8 leads every monday, 6 on tuesday , if I get lucky, 3 on wednesday, 5 on thursday 1 on friday, weekends I rarely get leads.This translates to about 20 to 30 leads a week.There is no way I can handle this many leads (unless I scale up and employ people and make this a really serious business, which I will, just not now).So why would I fork over 3K a month, and spending time and effort designing th emailers, sending the mailers tracking the mailers, monitoring which mailers work and which don't, skip tracing returned addresses, keep track which recipients need to be sent a second mailer blah blah blah.. are you kidding?!

If I had to do it over again I would skip the MBA and use that money towards buying more rental properties.