And they are always prompt with their communications and I'm never left in the dark on anything. 

Rental marketing is still in the fkn dark ages. 

There is a ton to learn online and by making connections and shadowing people!

Unless there are tons of Bear Sterns & Lehman's hiding in the shadows with derivatives and subprime mortgage packages to drop on our heads?

I would like to present these leads to a mentor and instead of money would like to shadow this person throughout the deal. 

Everyone tries to reinvent the wheel when all you gotta do is shadow a person already crushing it and do what they do .

Good pay...you understand homes better...always in demand and low education cost.If you can find a mentor to shadow, that would also be a good place to learn. 

And I will only be working with those 3 buyers because I wont be shooting an arrow in the dark by just aimlessly looking for properties hoping it fits the buyer's criteria.

So many cross current forces at play, demographics(older western pop. buying less stuff), offshore banking system,shadow banking system, private equity, reserve currency status, the credit cycle(business cycle) oil price inputs, etc.Also agree that supply/demand will push prices where they naturally want to be, but i am making a case against MASSIVE inflation, at least in short term (3yrs?)

See if you have someone in your network who might let you shadow them and learn on a deal or 2 before you venture out on your own.