In Arkansas it takes 2000 supervised hours to become a licensed appraiser.

Does this guy own his own agency or does he have a supervising broker?  

Same active BP members should be able to help out. since you're in CA, how do you plan to supervise your first flip? 

But you have to have someone you can really trust supervising and watching the till.

If you don't know how to fix things around the house or how much a repair should cost, or how to screen tenants or what a reasonable interaction with a tenant should be, how do you supervise or direct a PM to do so on your behalf?

You want to know enough about construction to supervise contractors and enough about cars to understand your mechanic, but do you want to fix your car yourself and do your own plumbing?

(They also forbade us from having any contact with any tenants or visiting the building without supervision) Unbeknownst to us, something shady was going on… So we got the property under contract.

I used to have my own crew do all framing/finish carpentry, site-prep and maintenance and I would coordinate and supervise the other trades.

She claims that the lease says nothing about the children being left alone, which is true, however I was very clear in the phone interview that I would only agree if the 18 y.o. was supervising.

"I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness [in the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] that we have in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision.