If it start to dry inbetween spray it with some water to keep it moist, it help with the process.

The air temperature and surface can't be below 50 degrees otherwise it won't dry.

In my area, good deals with banks has dried up.

Oh yeah the kids took toothpaste in their bedroom and wrote across the walls everywhere and it dried up hard.

If it's drywall use a quick drying material like Durabond.

Contaminated our vegetable pots by failing to move them from their way, even though they advised me the pots will be moved, and, as a result, the metal rods that were IMMERSED INTO THE SEWER, were being pulled RIGHT ABOVE our veggies and herb pots.

The MLS is dried up, auctions are being overrun by large syndicates and newbies who don't know how to analyze a deal, so the mid-sized investor isn't going to get much there either.Certainly, if you can do a good job finding off-market sellers, there's always opportunity, so that would need to be your focus.

$1 spent on dried beans will provide the sustenance you need for almost 2 days.

Would paying him/her be worth it?

I am about to write some new articles on how to raise private funds for real estate investing because in the new post-bubble world normal mortgage and hard money lending is drying up and many investors are being forced to use alternative methods – one of those methods, and maybe the best, is private lending.