They fall for the dream of quick and easy riches, pay for some training, then discover is takes real work, a lot of time and no small amount of money.

Where specialized training isn't required some get in with a broker's license and while they think they can do, or proclaim they do, many may have the process down but really lack the in depth knowledge that should be required.

I work with wholesalers and do in house marketing to get deals directly.You can also train new wholesalers to get your deals on a first look type of arrangement.

I know most of the agents in the office and they have told me they think my experience (Although limited at 1yr) will keep me from needing as much trainning and feel I can be succesful right away.

We will if they're a strong borrower and the deal looks good (or they came in via a referral), but from a lender's perspective, newer borrowers generally require more time investment, coaching, training, etc. 

Are you thinking of it as a career, in which case I’d recommend getting your real estate license abd joining a strong real estate team to get the training, experience, and leads to hit the ground running. 

Perhaps house hacking the first property on my own and looking for a separate investment property with more down would be ideal - we've also been looking at the Somerset/Swansea area with the train to Boston being worked on in Fall River eventually.

Instead it is typically best to work at a commercial brokerage that specializes in NNN on a team and get trained up over time.

And I plan to train our current staff on deal analysis and deal finding so that they can also contribute and learn that side of the business! 

After going through the comments I figured I’d ask a few more questions and share my train of thought for the exercise. 1.