While my dad taught me to swing a hammer and paint a wall, I have been learning some of the finer points about real estate investing from you guys here at BiggerPockets!

He knows a lot more about real estate than I do (though I am learning all that I can), and has done a few deals himself, but has no interest in swinging a hammer or getting messy.

So just like when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, every wet basement needs their product. 

There will usually be a contractor there that buys 10+ properties, and bidding increases are 100, so you can really just hammer away and go back and forth..obviously with math... the lower the appraised houses are... the bidding "cushion" is only 10-30k.

I’d do it all myself but I’m more valuable at my job than swinging a hammer , he’s a writeoff on my taxes and to be honest I don’t want to be around my tenants or that area very long lol Jim K has given you great advise .

If you're handy with a hammer, enjoy laying carpet, can hang drywall, roof a house and install a kitchen sink, you've got the skills to flip a house.

We got hammered with repeat foreclosures and evictions lately.

Not phsycially swinging the hammer right? 

All you've done is put bigger bars on the cage in hopes he never breaks out.What you really need to do is figure out how to find good tenants that don't require baby-sitting or you standing over them with a big hammer.

Before this thread gets hammered with real estate agents telling you to get a Real Estate license I am going to give my input. 1.