Last week I called about a duplex for sale for the first time to practice talking to sellers.

A list of approved establishments can be found on the Department’s website; (this educational requirement is in addition to the 45 hour sales pre-licensing classroom hours)Upon successfully passing the examination, candidates must submit the following...Real estate salespersons and brokers both fall under the purview/regulation of the RI Department of Business Regulation ("DBR"): http://www.dbr.state.ri.us/divisions/commlicensing...As a practical matter, I would strongly recommend taking the first option, being a salesperson for two years before applying to become a broker.

The arrangement consisted of me finding the property, Remodeling the property, Finding tenants, and managing the property from that point on.

You will find it is more efficient to let a service do it rather than try to do it consistently yourself.  

The big thing is to be consistent and find a way to stand out from your competition.  

I have knocked on doors(a summer gig), sold cars(successfully |salesman of the month out of 40 twice in 12months| & consistently just wasn't around enough winners to want to keep at it), worked in construction (I am currently helping renovate a home in Yakima, Washington), coached high school football, cleaned carpets (straight commission) and recently started a business online and learned several programming languages (HTML - CSS - JavaScript - Ruby - and bit of Python and backend database SQL stuff) and can design a fully responsive website from scratch.

Every city has areas that are growing, areas that are stagnant/consistent, and areas that are declining.  

If you’re interested, I cohost a networking meeting for the local BP community, just set up a keyword alert for Meetups in Tacoma or send me a PM and I let you know about the next one.Hope to see you around the forums and around the Sound.Taking Consistent Action,Kevin

So it's not very consistent.

Be consistent and patient.