I have considered becoming a property manager, real estate agent, or what ive been heavily considering is just doing construction and gaining the knowledge and skill to be a GC.

You have a set of skills/experience (or money) you bring to the table as an investor and you match those skills/experience/ideas with a property and you add value to create a deal. 

Majority of Americans do not have the STEM education, skills, prime age to get high paying jobs but alone with the stellar savings for downpayment. 

@Danielle McClellandHi,I just found Bigger Pockets October 1st 2018 and it has re vitalized my dream.

It seems reasonable to me for someone to start under the wings of an investor and trade time for developing some skills to build on. 

Or, perhaps you could start a consulting company with whatever skills you have expertise in.

A fire extinguisher is under 20 bucks, I might bring that as an offering to the table, but I wouldn't let them paint - painting cabinets requires some skill and patience - what if they do it very badly you may end up spending a lot of time reversing the job, or buying new hardware....worst case new cabinets. or they've spilled paint on the floors too...

You shouldn't be using Cost/Sqft as an evaluation tool in the first place.MLS data is KNOWN to be inaccurate; the selling agent enters it all as 'best he/she can from the information available".Sincerely hope you have better evaluation skills than that shown here.

And once you master these skills (like I did), guess what.

I wish to be realistic, and show with a limited amount of skill (no I have never re plumbed an entire house before nor have I been shown how to), limited resources (almost no money), your time, and that hard work you can change your life.