All you should need is a channellock, a bassin wrench, some teflon tape, a tape measure, and a ridgid or raptor pipe cutter.

It is a cookie-cutter type of business...where you learn a system and then rinse-and-repeat. 

I started with a mentor that had a cookie cutter system already in place.

It seems like a tough market with all these cookie cutter houses and town homes they are throwing up. 

The need is quite large for houses because new rigs are going up every year.

I was looking at a place just last week the auction starting bid was 67,000 the comp is 100k, easy comp when it is a cookie cutter town house and lots of nearby recent activities and the only variables are first or second floor, corner unit or not...however I found the on site property manager and they told me they owed 61k of HOA dues and penalties LOL.

To give you some examples, what I thought would be minor aesthetic repairs to the ceiling turned out to be structural issues, just about every pipe in the crawlspace burst when I turned the water back on due to the house being vacant for so long without any winterization measures taken and many issues with electrical outlets due to the previous homeowner nearly rigging the entire electrical system with duct tape.

Without the economies of scale and process creation by doing 100's of rehabs or cookie cutter builds, it's very hard to stick to "on paper" budgets for both time and money.

Then oil was deregulated and the drillers started stacking their rigs.

The way I market these homes appeals to people who appreciate art and something beyond a cookie-cutter row house.