Wouldn't trade it for anything....

Being that I'm a full time student and my income cannot be proven because it's all from trading, would it be reasonable for me to take out a HML for 6/12 months, and either come up with the rehab capital myself or use another investors help for rehab, and as an exit strategy tell my HML I plan to rehab and then cash out refinance to pay them off as my other investor and then rent out the property for the cash flow a use any excess funds for further investment?

I have been an employee in the single family home building trade as a carpenter for 42 years, been a foreman/working supervisor for the past 28 years of that.

Not on a jack of all trades type of attorney.

The construction side is huge and the fact that you work in the trades gives you a huge advantage.

The folks pushing all this trading up and trading down and the very folks who are collecting those costs.

I'm looking to trade my time for knowledge and experience.

Trying to get started in the flipping portion of real estate, to put my 42 years experience in the construction trade to good use.

Some pay for home warranties for this purpose but those are quite hit or miss (more miss than hit) so I don't use them.I have trusted trades or use Yelp or Angie's List as back-ups.Yes, you will have problems that require you to go a few trades deep to fix but that's part of the price of admission in my eyes.

You might consider attending the scheduled meeting in NYC and exchange notes as this will save you a lot of time sarching andgoing through the interviewing process; and you will get trade prices instead of retail.