To get a contractor's license?

[Paul M.]

Has anyone's experience in real estate let them to eventually get your contractor's license if you didn't start out as one? If so please comment on your strategy/experience as to how the rehabs are performed, eg do you do your own entirely, do you use a more experienced GC for the more complex stuff and do a portion yourself, etc.

[J Scott]

Hopefully Aaron McGinnis will chime in here...

He started as an investor, but got his GC license in order to streamline his business (I believe that was the reason). While he still does lots of his own projects (major tear-down/rebuild stuff), he also hires himself and his crew out to other investors -- in fact, they do a good portion of our bigger rehabs.