Your skills and background in remodeling will be more beneficial than any MBA you could have.

My first question for you is: Do you think an MBA is necessary for becoming a REI?

Additionally, I am nearly halfway through my MBA program as well.

We always got along great but she came from a successful professional background (father a Harvard MBA running a Fortune 500 company) me, my background, not so much.

Would you recommend to get a Masters or even MBA in Real Estate accredited by the RICS?

Has anyone attended? What did you ultimately take away from it?

Personally, I would sell everything and invest in corporate bondsin a public company that can weather a recession at the sametime building two or more 800 FICOs and one or a fewseasoned LLCs targeting 80 PAYDEX scores.Then after this downturn has decelerated,and interest rates are 50% of your bonds,withdraw the cash into something liquid,bypass residential real estate and jump intothe commercial game near the bottomafter analyzing 10,000 commercialproperties over those few years.You should be able to leverage millions.Total cost of plan = a few hundred dollars.This is my opinion and I'm not licensed,John Acheson, MBA

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(I did my whole MBA final study on the PM Company model).   

I have to ask since you started out this essay by saying, "I think this is a valid question,...".