These lenders will charge you every time you take a draw, and they won't give you draw money until after you complete a given phase of the project, and it's like pulling teeth to get them to sign off on each phase. 

Agree with Chris, pre-foreclosures are no place for newbies to start out either, new federal laws have teeth and you can be eaten messing with someone in foreclosure, take Chris' advice!

Shower, brush your teeth, ect just as if you have to see people, and if an opportunity comes up that you have to leave and see right away, you'll already be ready. :) To answer your actual questions- building for accounting/management or Excel.

Open yourself up to learn here because there is much to sink your teeth into.  

I "cut my teeth" with RTO's when I first started investing many moons ago, and the advice given above by @Roy N. and @Doug Pretorius is bang on.  

I generally have work for one contractor or another just about any time and I have to pull teeth just to get them to show up.My plumber just got too big, or is sick of working on my pipe maze, and no longer takes my calls.  

I'd love to sink my teeth into something like that.  

Well thank you Don but really, I'm not for "more" regulation, I'd like to see many taken off the books, I'm for better regulation and more teeth to hold corporate types personally responsible for their actions, not just mistakes or errors, but obvious violations of law as well as standard practices, such as this rate manipulation matter.I also think that private banks, say under 100 million shouldn't be held to the same standards required of the billion dollar round table.And, smaller financial instutions say under 25 million would have even greater freedoms, but it certainly would not be anything goes as Mr.

Old Oriental Proverb: Before kicking sleeping trigger like Michael Quarles, you best have a plan to deal with the teeth!

I'm gonna like put all of this in a word document lol.Michael Woodward Haha well I am still learning and lack real teeth and claws.