I have spent a great deal more time with some buyers or sellers, but these are the averages, which I use for my budget model.Next question I have to ask myself is, "What is my profession and my expertise worth on a per hour basis, when compared to other professional service providers?" 

Simple thing is to just take the required education, which sounds like you have done, and then to find practice tests and just work till you consistently get a 90 percent on them or better.

Networking is always a great practice and you never know who you might meet there and what good information they have to share.

Same as practicing medicine is required.

They tel you how to do analysis, but Dont stress the practice needed.So many new investors want that first deal so bad that they ignore or skew the analysis an it cost you nothing to look at deal and practice

Great practical book with actionable steps.Enjoy!

I think if you're referring other people as commercial tenants, however, you definitely need a real estate license because you're brokering tenancies in a property you don't own.I can really only answer question 2 here, and under question 2, I think that is for sure practicing real estate without a license. 

Get a copy of the foreclosures prior and maybe go see a couple of the properties (as much as you can see within legal limits) and then run some numbers as practice to how much rehab and ARV would be.

I am similarly convinced this has nothing to do with good investment practices, but rather with making sure they don't put themselves in the crosshairs of building regulatory organizations for promoting shoddy DIYing. 

I’m taking the test next week I just wanted to know I keep getting 70’s, last score 79 on the practice tests from the ce shop course practice test.