Getting your feet wet as a part time real estate agent is a pretty good way to start in my opinion.

This will be my first investment property and I want to get my feet wet while I am in Germany.

We have been trying to get our feet wet with a buy and hold, but had a deal fall through just before covid hit, and now things have escalated, of course. 

You don't have to actually cough up the EM until you have an accepted contract.

I am just getting my feet wet but would love to have the opportunity to network with anyone and everyone haha 

Everything is a pain, has to be done the old way with wet ink signatures, they screwed up my 990-T filing last year, constant demands for FMVs, etc.

The scoring, the wetting, the scraping....and then hours/days later you end up with shite-covered studs for walls.

Would it be important to hit the ground running and just start an LLC even though I don't have my feet wet? 

I would just say get your feet wet and you'll learn a lot on your first one. 

And then an energy crises hits the United States 5 years later and the cost to heat or cool our homes triples... so me being from California and mistakenly moving to Oklahoma so I could have 4 seasons instead of just Blazing Hot and Slippery Wet I need to always have either the heater or the air conditioner (the humidity in Oklahoma is so bad fish hitch hike between ponds)  before I FINALLY get to move to Florida and get on those awesome "Florida Resident Only" discounted cruises.