That is the point of acting as a licensed agent to begin with.The job of these promotional companies is to be transparent and make sure investors know they are not impartial.  

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Basically you need to get yourself involved and throw yourself into the RE world I'm pretty involved socially with my business I just don't know where to find these "meet-ups" (that seems to be a common phrase) 

You'll need to ask the zoning office, but it's doubtful unless that's common in the area.

I’m a handyman and I work with a few rental properties and do some projects that range to the small stuff like hanging doors, repair trim and drywall to new flooring installs, painting, appliance repair, yard work and repairing your usual leaky faucet..The issue I’m having currently is I have just gotten into contact a couple days ago about a flooring job.

I'm 17 years old, I've graduated high school and currently doing an accelerated college degree. in the meantime I'm working a full time job/ a few side Hustles and a budding business.

Otherwise you're just creating a job. 

It also takes away the risk of forcing you to pay it back if one of your loses your job. 

Helps when you want to keep your crew at the job and you can't fit drywall in your car/truck. 

I've seen scenarios where people buy "off-market" deals and offer a crazy upside, but in reality that deal was worse than one that sold on the market, and the comp they used on the upside was a seller finance deal that sat on the market for 280+ days...my job is never to convince anyone, but I always give them an opportunity, even if they want to go another route, to send me those deals so i can analyze them for them.