Disclaimer: While I’m an attorney licensed to practice in PA, I’m not your attorney.

Then you can practice real estate as an agent under a principal sponsoring brokerage of your choice. 

@Natalie KolodijI seen your tag and wanted to ask if you only practice the accountant in NC?

Another goal is to start practice analyzing properties (though I admit I'm not 100% confident in that). 

Admittedly, I am sharing my initial research and consultation (including a long lunch meeting with an attorney recently) but not my actual practice, YET.  

This is actually a common practice.

I didn't use 'deceptive' practices#2.

We "retired" at age 32 when I left my career in private practice as an Optometrist. 

We currently own and manage one rental property and the tenant pays us via Venmo and we use excel to track expenses. As we scale our portfolio, we want to make sure we have good systems in place for accounting, tenant...

I didn't know that Illinois or Chicago had a similar law, but other say there is such a requirement.From a practical standpoint I wouldn't state electronic payment through Zillow as my only payment method in a lease.