I've been a commercial GC for 30 years and do my own residential construction for investment. With the correct expertise it's a huge benefit. I have 30 years of learning the right way and the wrong way. Your benefit ultimately in constructing your own deals is the recapture of the profit and general conditions a GC would charge you to complete a project, but in the end you are buying yourself a job. Someone has to be the PM and Superintendent and if your solo that's you. When I started out in construction I always said I had a staff of three, me myself and I. Now that I've built a machine and have staff and I reap the benefits. However, getting your license is not a gift card unless you can do the work required to pull deals together efficiently. Good luck.
