Let's start with your bio on the Rise Equity site where you extoll the talents of "your team" (taking credit for the work of Katie Loughney's team on which you work) and your own accomplishments as a real estate salesperson.

I was able to get into this by networking with some very smart and talented people in the local market and banking.

That all revenue generated would have to stay in the company and couldn’t be used for personal things.I’m trying to find a way to use my God given talents and the only one I seem to have is in Real Estate hahaha.

Use your looks and smile and work those talents. 

I'm a numbers person with decent negotiating, project management, and administrative skills, and I was counting on those talents plus some education to be enough to get taken seriously.

You're clearly a hard-working person with a talent for personal finance and real estate acquisition as compared to the layperson.

So I basically don't know how to swing a hammer, and I don't think I really have much talent (or natural interest) in learning construction?

Property management is difficult and if the manager discounts, they will not be able to keep talented staff and you will end up with a cheap manager who can not properly service your property. 

That all revenue generated would have to stay in the company and couldn’t be used for personal things.I’m trying to find a way to use my God given talents and the only one I seem to have is in Real Estate hahaha.

That all revenue generated would have to stay in the company and couldn’t be used for personal things.I’m trying to find a way to use my God given talents and the only one I seem to have is in Real Estate hahaha.