a small, local bank would be the best bet.

@Don Konipol After researching it more it looks like my best bet might be to just flip the houses by selling the land contract/note to a note buyer.

If you are looking to stay at that brokerage and become a real agent then your best bet might be to give the listing to someone in the office who could serve as your mentor.

Certainly a good way to help the industry and/or farm business leads, but I'll bet very few of the sh***y ones would make that effort and/or expose themselves to that (constructively critical at times) feedback and discourse.

My wife and I run a few vacation rentals and I too am an agent.Welcome to BP - it's a pretty powerful platform. 

Most people are :-Terrified of anything that is potentially risky with money - naturally cynical and negative toward new things - fearful of what they don’t understand Knowing this ..your best bet is to write your goals on a piece of paper and tell no one .

I knew my budget was going to be low because we aren't paid very much in the military so I decided that living in a fixer-upper was going to be my best bet.

Does anyone ever book "off platform" from VRBO and AirBnB?

I am looking for any advice of where to learn and any steps I should take whether that be with local real estate agents or just on this platform, anything is appreciated.

Most of my clients have base hits properties and I bet the ones that @Matt M. referred too as well have a lot of base hits.