When you pick the largest mortgage bank in the country that's known for having "meh" pricing to fund the largest mortgage marketing budget in the country with hundreds of script-reading LOs in cubicles who have all signed (& this is lawful) do-not-compete/do-not-broker agreements, yes commercial financing will be better. heh.If I ever went back to grad school and picked marketing as what I'd study, it would be how a large enough marketing budget can offset almost any other hurdle a business could possibly have, and Quicken Loans would be my case study.

Hey I am studying to get my real estate license and I want to become an agent but I know that I want to eventually invest into property.

This gives me somewhat of a direction while i study up on various materials. 

The National Science Foundation did a study in the early `1990s that found 55% of adult Americans could not correctly answer "does the earth go around the sun or the sun around the earth, and how long does it take?".

I studied TKs carefully for 9 months and decided it wasn't for me - for every reason you laid out. 

@Najee Hoggard Looking up studies and statistics from the National Association of Realtors at realtor.org is a good starting point.

Yes, we say all the time "we wished we knew, studied, investigated....blah, blah, blah"  Better late than never...and now instead of taking my time dipping our toes in the REI world....we are all the way in and fast tracking it!  

Haven't you studied at KeyRealty as I did 2018/2019?

@Marcus NicksonBe your local expert on real estate, study your market, stay on BP and answer investors questions locally.

@Joe Hamner The assessed land value does NOT mean that you will have no depreciable basis and everything will be assigned to land (not depreciable).Getting a cost segregation study done will break out the 15 year depreciable assets (landscaping, pavement, fencing, site lighting, etc.) from the 27.5-year infrastructure assets (septic, water, propane, electrical, etc.).