Mastery of them should encompass the entire spectrum.

That encompasses from Toledo to Cleveland.

This time however I feel like there's potentially a larger storm brewing, encompassing multi-facets globally.

I consistently have the ability, between my thorough/ hands on property management team ( that I assembled and manage), construction ability encompassing all aspects, and successful tenant placement procedures...to acquire houses, renovate them, and have them pay me rent of 9-1000 a month over and over again, while costing me right at what you are talking about out the door. 

This area is known as Old Goucher, Barclay, and Charles North, and encompasses a bit of the southern end of Charles Village.

I coach cash or terms investingI believe that you need to understand the following types of investingWholesaling where you control property with a sale and purchase agreement or option agreement and sell the contract; I believe you won't do well in wholesaling unless you have some cash buyers alreadyRetailing where you actually buy the property fix up and resell it to a retail buyer; you should have Hardmoney lenders and joint venture partners, cash partners,  credit partners before you do retailingSeller financing which encompasses usually low equity deals.  

I currently signed with Encompass who required we have all our policies including auto insurance with them.

If you are adjacent to an area zoned to what you are proposing, and just moving a boundary on the zone map to encompass your lot, that's not hard.

Everything has to grow or perish, and therefore the name is all encompassing which is great for the spread of the brand in the future.

So if you actually look at the reality of things construction isn't really down and comparing it to GDP, unemployment, etc is exactly apple-to-apples because none of those things encompass just one general field of profession (the construction industry).