Landlords publicly complain about rent control while secretly loving it because it discourages new construction, it makes market rents rise even faster than normal and it gives you downside protection because your property will never see a decrease in revenue even in recessions.

Many of the best deals never get publicly listed, and brokers' best clients who have a track record of closing get first dibs.Build and nurture relationships w/ commercial brokers.  

The law can be found under the preconditions heading of rent escrow law in baltimore city's public laws, section 9.

Can I still be hired by a company or work for myself if my license was not received through an accredited school or program? 

There is no "Popular Guru" teaching lease-option to buy programs where the transactions will be compliant as intended meeting new accounting requirements (by everyone in business) and/or the IRS Code, they don't event touch the subject matter I'd bet on it. 

Zillow "...generates unbiased local and national real estate data and analysis on 929 metropolitan areas and approximately 10,400 individual neighborhoods that we provide to consumers and real estate, rental, mortgage and home improvement professionals..." (2) The Zillow database focus is data aggregation of 110 million properties with "information from tens of thousands of public and private sources."

First, become familiar with the duties and responsibilities of your agency relationship and how you are to conduct business with the public.

Go to your local SBA (Small Business Administration) and see what programs they have to offer. 

Although we have a formal mentoring program here, wherein a mentor is assigned and you both agree to a service/compensation arrangement,  I never used it.  

The Lowes in my area has the best contractor program.5% off everything: sometimes more on big items/orders.