Allow water to run around house into buried drums.By doing this, it allows water the release into the front slowly rather then creating a dam effect of water run off...It’s cheap, will get the job done and you can hire a few high school kids to do the job while you supervise the project!!

We also supervise the renovations (as you can't never fully trust the workers as you know).We have a commission for finding the property.

Step 4 Learn to work independently without supervision..

Developers working on mega jobs may hire a full-time manager to supervise the job site during the entire duration of the project. 

@Matthew SchneiderWhen you become a licensed real estate professional, every single one of your real estate activities becomes subject to your brokers supervision.

Their builds are designed so that people who don't have experience can work on them, under the supervision of people that do have experience. 

Oddly everytime I go do some cleaning or supervision of the work, I see the tenant circling the block.

When you become licensed you subject yourself to your brokers supervision and the oversite of your states licensing board/department.

I understand the purpose of the GC position isn't manual labor, but that still feels steep for simple supervision, especially considering the budget is tight. if this was a school/hotel/restaurant/etc I could understand. do GCs normally charge both a weekly rate and a flat percentage on the end for single-family jobs?

It's hard to supervise by phone unless you could acquire a general contractor you really trust.