Plumbers, electricians and other trades can easily charge well over $180/hr).

But of course, you need to be very careful about the risk of starting a trade war.  

Simply owning some investment real estate does not make one a real estate professional anymore than owning some stock's makes one a Stock Trader....To qualify for real estate professional status (REPS), you must meet the following requirements:50% test: More than half of your personal services must be in real property trades or businesses.750-hour test: You must perform at least 750 hours of services in real property trades or businesses.

If you want a machine thats a jack of all trades , look at a Kubota L 3901 with a backhoe . ( Kubota still has 0% financing  )

When the World Trade Center was crashed into, the owner collected double on the insurance policy but then had to give half of it back.  

Hi Mark, I am a Marketing Strategist by trade.

@Natalie Johnstone My former employer who was a privately traded company that owned over a billion dollars of real estate and had an ancillary management business with revenues that exceeded $100M annually would sometimes form entities in Delaware because business cases are tried in front of a judge w/o a Jury and case law that's applied to decisions is very well developed in the State.

Sheetrock crew comes in next....think they clean up after all the other trades and throw away all the trash? 

Ok, great, but the troubled loans in his portfolio won’t be able to refinance into GSE debt without massive cash injections by the borrower because agencies are topping out at 60-ish LTV (current value).I agree with you that there is an opportunity here—but I wouldn’t want to touch any of this bridge debt unless bought at a very steep discount, and so far those trades don’t seem to be happening.

It is a whole new profession/trade and it should be taken as such...