You are a thoughtful and talented educator.But please let me fine-tune your reading of my comments.

Flipping houses takes talent and focus.

Here is my success equation: ((Passion + Talent) x Association x Action)) + Faith = Your Success Equation.

There is lot of talent in the forums, and we're happy to help out.

Here is the last T-shirt we used, modeled by the very talented @John Fedro And John is actually wearing the shirt backwards (too many of those beers??)

So, yes, you might save $10K on labor, but you could easily miss an opportunity that could net you $30K.That said, if you're handy enough and don't have any other way to finance a rehab when getting started, go for it, but like any business you need to leverage other people's talents and time to get big.

I can personally vouch for Matt's talents as he was a top-performing sales and acquisitions agent in our Houston office before moving to Southern California to help open our Los Angeles office.

. :( Good thing that talent isn't a prerequisite for getting into real estate!!

But Brandon, I don't call myself an American - though, technically all of us on this continent are Americans ... like Davy, I'm from away ;-)-Pro members get superpowers and can swing from building to building using string that comes out of their wrists get to help BiggerPockets continue to provide amazing tools, resources, and a platform for investors to learn and grow without being harassed by "The Man" and his $99,997 course.You had me sold with the spiderman talent, but then I see it was the old bait-n-switch ....

You get successful on the bigger hunts by slowly moving up with your techniques, knowledge and talents, any big jump along the way usually backfires.