I got a college degree in business that emphasis in real estate.  

Most contractors when they look at your job already know the ballpark per amount of material or room or whatever and are just deciding how much to tack on for degree of difficulty and how fancy your house looks.  

But whether or not you need to make the place "pretty" for a new tenant depends to a great degree on the tenant.

A security deposit assures, to some degree, the rented premises can be returned to their former condition before the tenants occupancy.

I have a college degree in business that emphasized real estate.  

I got a college graduation and got a business degree that was emphasizing in real estate.  

I'm currently a secretary with a Bachelor's Degree in  Criminal Justice. 

I'm just starting out and I wanted to know if this was a great goldmine of a source, to what degree and the best methods that have been used for the sellers. 

(It definitely affected it, but not to the doom and gloom degree that many think).

I have an accounting degree and plenty of experience with numbers, just looking for a good deal.