I'm very very handy, jack of all trades if you will, so I can renovate properties without breaking the bank in labor costs.

(This is obviously a simplification; one must consider risk, personal comfort, ability to manage, etc.).The wealth builder should always consider selling or trading his property for a property that will increase his net worth FASTER.  

Has anyone here ever sold some of their bitcoin to buy some real estate? 

:)Having done something similar years ago, would advise you NOT to quit W-2 until you have a crew you can depend on to do at least 80% of the rehab work.You should also be building a network that exposes you to more deals than you can currently handle.Otherwise, you're just trading one job for another and won't be able to scale enough to generate the number of flips you need to replace W-2 job.

To be regarded as a real estate professional, you must perform a substantial amount of real estate business, defined as more than half of your time, and at least 750 hours, spent in real estate trades or businesses. 

They want to be a jack of all trades.

I'm certainly not advocating holding your rent @ $400 when the market is @ $700, but take into account the NET amount you are making on your tenants when deciding if its worth it to trade a 3% rent increase for a possibly broken business relationship with your client.

The painter had showed my trade-craft using "Liquid Mask", so hoping it will be relatively easy.

He is a jack of all trades.

So if I liquidate money from my business credit cards and open a forex brokerage account and pay for a trading bot, is the money i use to pay back the credit cards and trading bot taxable?