Setting this up is not hard, you just have to start up a trading company, understand all the infrastructure, terminology etc.

., the guys that can wait a long period of time for bargains and wait out market swings).

The PM work doing yourself is still costing you time which you are trading for saved money.To me it is not saved if I am doing 10 per hour work but making hundreds of dollars per hour doing other activities.

Instead, I need to pay each of the trades to come out and do the inspections:roof, plumbing, electrical, and hvac.Its ridiculous.

I am in the construction trade and the cost of all the cosmetic work cost would be.strictly.materials.

I'm an art director by trade and feel I can probably get a gig there.

If you do the roof and don't have anything left than I would recommend slowly doing the other items over time or trading for services like (whatever you have to offer) for someone to do a little landscaping.

Not as many want to play in the small space because of the return for the time invested.It's just like I will not work on brokering a 20 unit vacant apartment building that is trading a 3,000 a door and needing 12k of work inside per unit because I might work 4 months negotiating water, liens, junior liens, taxes. short sale from the lender etc. to make 5,000 in commission if I am lucky.I don't work on anything unless the check is five to six figures for the time invested.

I just do not have the time...I just need to know what to do next...My motivation now comes in mood swings.

If you can swing a deal, great.