I am using the corporate world as a day job until I can be a full time investor!

My stepmom (now Broker) needed a LA-based agent, and that's where I come in.I'm an Intern at Sprint, working in one of their corporate offices, learning about business sales for the summer.

You should open an S Corp or an LLC but you don't need a specific license to wholesale real estate.

There's also a podcast or two that talk about corporate structure for house flipping so definitely check those out.

With commercial real estate you are dealing with corporations and contracts (Leases).

(a) Except as hereinafter expressly provided, the provisions of this title shall not apply to any of the following classes of securities:...(11) Any security which is a part of an issue offered and sold only to persons resident within a single State or Territory, where the issuer of such security is a person resident and doing business within or, if a corporation, incorporated by and doing business within, such State or Territory"Further, in my state (same as OP) as long as the D-T or note is not sliced and diced, the securities transaction are Exempt Transactions per text in Exempt Transactions in the North Carolina Securities Act:Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, the following transactions are exempted from G.S. 78A-24 and G.S. 78A-49(d):...(5) Any transaction in a bond or other evidence of indebtedness secured by a lien or security interest in real or personal property, or by an agreement for the sale of real estate or chattels, if the entire security interest or agreement, together with all the bonds or other evidences of indebtedness secured thereby, is offered and sold as a unit.If they are selling other people's real estate or putting buyers and sellers together, then the state's Real Estate commission may raise an eyebrow.

I moved back to my home state (Massachusetts) in 2008 and have been in Corporate America since.

It was a fun ride, but the corporate drag, not to mention cross-country commute became less than appealing… Thankfully it introduced me to RE.My goal is to begin accumulating small, MF properties.

I'm a little uneasy hearing the same thing over and over from experienced investors that you need to hire everything out, lost opportunity cost, your time is more valuable, yada-yada-yada ;)Yes, when you've grown your business past the infancy stage, hire it out and focus on more valuable tasks then drywalling, absolutely - but not everyone enters REI after spending a decade socking away $$ in a corporate world, and some just enjoy the challenge and want the opportunity to learn the process so they could have a better finger on the pulse later on - and that's the case with meI chose to remodel my primary residence 90% by myself.

I have always been a firm believer that ambition/ motivation are nothing without initiative.The funny thing is that my background is in Finance/ Securities {CDs, Corporate/ Govt./ Municipal Bond} trading and I worked for a reputable firm for nearly 4 years until I realized that it wasn't a fit for my long term goals.Oddly enough, I have read several RE books, and had undergraduate courses in RE... but I am at the point that I need a little "hand- holding" to put everything together.