Anthony my husband  is a full time Electrician he's a good handyman and I'm full time social worker but our goal is to achieve financial freedom through the real estate business.

I've used different pest control companies, handymen, flooring guys, painters, electricians, etc., just on these 2 properties and feel like I have a solid grasp of what to recommend. 

For example, they would inspect your place (required) and say a smoke detector has been be moved a few feet, and then the electrician would quote a high rate because they knew it was required.  

We have had contractors bill for "electrician" but person wasn't licensed so we renegotiated. 

Even if you are just putting up and taking down real estate signs it would let you get familiar with the local market and make some connections.If you aren't interested in college at all, I would look at learning a trade that would be beneficial in real estate investing - plumbing, carpentry, electrician, etc.  

I am an electrician by day but hope that one day investing can replace that career.

When an electrician can drive 45min to earn at $85hr or stay 5min to home and earn $35, it's simply economics that his local price WILL keep elevating until close enough to the $85 to keep enough electricians in local market to serve.

I went through a local apprenticeship for low voltage electrical work (telecommunications), where I worked side by side with electricians, and other trades.

You don't necessarily have to use an Electrician.

JV partner then paid electrician another $4k(?)