Before you choose a lender, ask your agent who they have had good experiences with before.

I love my career choice and I choose to work endlessly for every client I have, the majority of brokers/agents I know work well over 40 hours a week and will drop anything they are doing for a client's needs.

If you live in the house for 2 years, you wont have to pay capital gains taxes if you choose to sell once you move out. 

I would be polite, but firm with whatever decision you choose to make.

Adrian knows the market and can help you if you choose him as you RE guy.

If they do, you can also meet with those brokers and ask if they’re looking to hire new agents, what the costs will be and what kind of support and training you’ll get, etc.As an agent you’ll be working for or “under” a broker, so choosing a good one is important and can even make the licensing process smoother for you if you can find a good one before you take the classes and new agent exam.There are a lot of little technicalities like DBR (RI Division of Business Regulation) forms and fees, required Errors and Omissions insurance, etc. and you’ll need to have a broker for some of that so the sooner you identify one you want to work with/for, the better.

For the sellers that choose owner finance, they know that the interest will pay them more in the long run so they choose to go that route instead of taking the up front lump sum.

As Jordan mentioned, it is really all about building a good team on the ground, including lenders and financiers, in whichever region you are choosing to work in.I would certainly recommend, to start with at least, just pick one region and learn it WELL! 

Enough rental property income to replace my wife and my income so she does not have to work/so she can CHOOSE to work or not and so I can spend more time investing and doing creative and community work 2.

A forum can only grow so far before someone has to choose between keeping their "labor of love" just that or make a BIGGER impact in the world and figure out "the business" and scale and monetize parts of it.