You cannot walk down the street, sit in a bar, talk to parents at a playground, attend a ice cream social, help pull a car out of a ditch without hearing how their parent, older aunt/uncle etc worked for Kodak.

I knew that you was going to get creamed when you said that the only ones you could trust were appraisers and Inspector‘s.

That is the "icing" as you said...with cherries on top...and whip cream while you're at it. 

CREAM is a facebook group that hosts meetups from time to time.

Have more than one realtor (I usually find 5 in a market and work with all of them until the cream rises). 

I would stick with neutral cream.

You will learn so much that whatever cash you make is just the whip-cream on the sundae. 

The cream always rises to the top, so if you are excellent you will be running crews, finding subs, or something of that nature very quickly. 

My family and I come for shopping and lunch, but might as well stay and play while parents get a drink, then end with Ice Cream or smoothies, and if anything maybe hit a movie or something.

Speaking of punchlist items, the last 10% of your project is where the cream rises to the top and it can be frustrating as heck.