To me the second best set of educational skills I got in this business was my knowledge of the trades.

As it seems clear you will be using financing your short time frame to move into an apartment building via 1031 exchange seems aggressive Trading in depreciated assets can be a challenging task, I am sure you can find much more information on 1031's within the site.

I'm a photographer by trade - I've shot for ad agencies around the country, traveled from Japan to Jamaica for weddings and have billionaires among my portrait clients.

You will be doing the grunt work for them learning the trade.

(For California)No, I'm not a ripoff lender, but I am the Education Chair for the largest (well, for that matter, the only) statewide trade association (in Calif.) for hard money lenders.

I am an engineer by trade so when I do a casual walk through I am already compiling a list of things to repair and I know what to watch out for.

The 1/5th version of the gold and silver I may begin to purchase but at the current price of 32 per ounce I think a silver 1 ounce coin splits up your investment to a small enough denomination that if it was even used for something like money you could just trade a coin for what ever your buying.

In my area, certain trades require their own licensing.

I trade aka flip stocks. but there has been moments where I wish I had my cash in my hands :)

The goal will be to buy and hold for a minimum of 5 years, and then trade up, with new opportunities constantly being evaluated.Let me know if you need any more information.Thanks a lot for all your helpSAP.S.