My core team/partners are widely skilled in both trades and real estate, but the project will be complex and involve a number of / teams of contractors, several phases/stages, and ideally and more complicated, periods of occupancy and development in parallel.

Your people skills however will be used every minute of every day. 

You need good systems and good communication skills to be good at this.  

I have a lot of knowledge and some skill.

I may use a GC for the job, or I might coordinate the skilled trades myself - it just depends on the complexity of the individual project.

We could suggest that the folks who post on these threads and those students whom we have worked with are just out-liars but I can honestly tell you I have not met a skilled note investor from ANY of these programs.  

I am positive your skills in building will be of assistance to someone on the site, so network, network and then NETWORK more!!

I've met with sellers a couple of times, but I've got a long way to go to sharpen my skills.

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Ultimately want to hone my skills to provide the best service I can to my clients and all that share in my business.