I've been reading as much as I can on the subject, particularly the commercial investment/sales front as that's the field I would like to enter into, or operate primarily in, but I'm curious as to what self-education sources an ACTUAL commercial broker might suggest to a junior/inexperienced agent looking become a competent CRE sales professional in the future, without wanting to harvest a kidney in order to pay for it.

I house hacked it for the first 7 years till I moved, I then rented it  out about 10 years ago.I've been a hard labor type my whole life, always able to go make a living working hard. 5 years ago I found out I had kidney failure, 2 years ago I officially became disabled.

If the opportunity is really that good... sell a kidney!

Please contact me if you can save my taxes and leave my kidneys intact.I haven't had any issues until now.My Best, Eric

I suppose it's for the same reasons that you haven't performed a kidney transplant procedure.

When their kidneys started to fail they peed in convenient places.Life got immensely easier when we removed the carpet and replaced it with tile.

The reason being, among other factors, there are now homes to buy, and you wont have to donate your left kidney to get an offer accepted! 

Iirc, that's a kidney medicine. 

But if you go in there with the certainty that you can (painfully) afford to lose every cent of the money you bid for a property and a willingness to take a punch in the kidney and get back up again,  you're more ready to take your shot at this business than half the dudes in the room.Our big thing outside the auction is pocket listings.

I would always suggest keeping the homes as rentals unless you absolutely need cash to buy some kidneys or some other vital organ in your body.Also there have been studies done on the impact of Amazon in Northen Virginia presented by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and they did not list Southern Virginia as an area to be impacted with anything significant.