If you're very good and build your skills, work hard, communicate honestly, and bring value to people - you'll be off to a great start.

While everyone is working their butt off, some are more skilled at this than others; posses better judgment, have been doing it longer, and have deeper connections.

I hope i can become self-employed starting with gathering the relevant knowledge and skills to sign my first deal. 

Thanks in advance.PS - I work for food only, unless u want to pay me to help as I am very skilled in many repair arenas thanks to my grand pop...:)Pam H.

I am beyond excited to be a lart of such a great community of such diverse backgrounds and skill sets.

In this situation, you really need to put on your "people skills" hat.

Your marketing needs to find off-market deals, your analysis need to accurately determine ARV, your negotiating skills need to enable a contract at a well-below-market price, you need to be able to evaluate the property for for rehab costs accurately, and the easiest part is finding buyers. 

You clearly have some serious skills that have a lot of value.

As I gained skill in conversion and closing, and my numbers increased, i changed strategies to re-position my business and myself as the go-experts for the legal community in my state, California.  

There are days filled with paper work, and days with zero paper work.I think though one of the most important skills to have as an agent, and really this continues over to my investing business as well is TIME MANAGEMENT.