I have a goal of becoming financially free within 10 years if I start now and became a full time real estate agent would it speed up my process buy giving me better opportunities or would working as a agent slow me down cause of all the fees, learning process, and the long hour's.

@Dana Sample, I cannot speak to CA specifically, but flipping is a speed game, and tenants can be a pain in the rear.  

In the meantime my gears have been grinding on how I can speed up this process, short of, selling some (cough, cough) illegal substances or knocking over some banks.I starting thinking about marketing myself to my family and friends and gathering funding for a down payment from them to create a Joint Venture (JV), where I would pay them interest (at a rate that is better that the savings account that they currently have that money in) over a relatively short period of time. 

It just speeds up the process for those who are time poor or in a rush.You will then show the plans to different GC's to obtain quotes.

There were a few things that peaked my interest... growing market, gentrification and jobs.

It's primarily used as a peak-shaver energy source in the summer to offset everyone turning their ACs on at once.

This is one of the things I think is critical to get really clear on during the hunt, because things are moving at gazelle speed these days and clarity breeds wise speed!

I've been wanting to get into flipping for a while to speed up the process of buying rentals.

Although I think a broker can speed the process up a little bit.

Between the erratic homeowner and this speed bump I can only hope the next one is an absolute breeze comparatively.