Quote from @Paul Gupta: Hi, in California, For jobs requiring a license, there was CSLB (contractor state licensing board) which would give either a General Contractor license, or specialty licenses by trade (~60 specialties such as concrete, welding tile, ) https://www.cslb.ca.gov/about_us/library/licensing_classific...My Q: does Maryland and DC area have similar requirements? 

There is such a massive oversupply of units in that region that it will likely affect other neighboring regions for the next few years. 

Normally they would mix the concrete by hand. 

Quote from @Greg Scott: LOL  Very creative.It could produce a windfall, or perhaps, massive IRS penalties.  

I will throw this out there, but you do NOT need 40 doors to reach your financial targets (unless you're wanting a massive amount of monthly income). 

In my area, the inspectors are massively overloaded and often skip through a nice house quickly while telling me the last house they were in set them back 2 hours because there were so many violations.

I am also a huge believer that with massive affordability issues in cities people will start to migrate to smaller towns that they can afford.

@Veronica Mitchell - A little bit of an open-ended question since Chicago is just so massive and has a ridiculous amount of mult-family properties. 

Issues with multiple national carriers leaving the state completely due to state regulations, massive loss ratios, huge increases in replacement cost values/limits due to inflation, etc. 

Google Operation Chokepoint for just ONE example of what banking regulators do with their massive power.