If the financials are the part you are least confident about I think it would make a lot of sense to start working with an accountant.

Repeal would allow cities and counties seeking to adopt new rent control to apply limits on rent increases to any housing of their choice.

At times I feel very confident.  

I am confident that I have all the tools I need, just needing to expand my knowledge and network!!

Prices have dramatically increased in the last year or two, but look to be stabilizing.

What is not plausible is that paying down a mortgage is increasing cash flow.

As new apartments open across the city in record numbers, vacancy rates have grown, rents have stopped rising and landlords are offering an increasing number of freebies to get tenants in the door.For years, the Seattle rental market was so heated that renters would constantly monitor online listings and quickly show up to available apartments with checkbooks and references in hand.

The license might give you some access to data and the ability to make a commission that you otherwise would not have, but with that access and ability to earn comes increased liability because you're an educated and state licensed professional.

While it's great that unemployment has gone down, average wages have gone down more than 1% meaning people might have a job, but those entry level jobs don't really pay muchInventory for home purchases are significantly depressedDepressed inventory is creating higher prices (the old supply and demand)Increasing interest rates are also hitting people's debt ratios, so where they were able to buy a property last year with a 50% debt ratio, that same property has gone up in value and there has also been about a .5% to .75% increase in the interest rate. 

Not sure why it would increase