Contractor/Investor advice

[Tony Reale]

It seems many ex contractors go in to flipping with the idea, like mine, that you can really save profits by doing most of the work yourself. My question is to all of the contractors that have converted to full time investing. I don't want to know what you do in your business now. I want to know what you did on your first 1-5 flips as far as how much of the work you did yourself.

I have 15 years of full time plumbing experience. I have almost 10 years of demo/carpentry experience.

From the actual contractors out there.... What is your advice to a person that CAN do most of the work?

Use your arms or your brains? I can paint a house even though I am not a painter. I can make it look just as good although I know for a fact I can't do it as fast as an actual painter.

What did you guys do at first and more importantly what did you learn from doing it all?