having a bit of street smarts in me, I have a knack to being able to tell when people are trying to screw me over and skim some money from the top.  

I have a full time career as an engineer in a large processor manufacturing company in Oregon.My goal this year is to be more active on the site besides just consuming every podcast in the archive.

Since you own 70 rentals you have to decide how active versus passive you want to be.Everyone in existence is chasing the value add multifamily right now.

Their office is directly across the street from mine.

I've lurked a little bit here in the past but decided to create an account and get active.

@Rabeeya Khan I'm a Broker who specialize in working with in investors in the Oakland area we have done a lot of flips in the Bay Area over the years; I grew up in Oakland so I know it very well. 1.7mil sounds really high what street is it on?

Nor would i buy a rental on my same street.  

Can anyone provide insight on the process of obtaining licensing in Nebraska, maintaining the license, annual fees, need to actively broker etc.

I've never been to Hawaii but if I were you I would drive every street looking for a distressed, unloved property.

The property had been on the market for a while without much activity, so we made an offer at $5,000 (so 95k) below asking with paying taking 3% closing costs.