She said she can just look online at houses, but she wanted our expertise in the negotiates to get her the best deal.Sure, you could have out of towners coming to the area, so you want to know the market, but it's a simple 1-2-3 search and you can have the market at your fingertips.Negotiation skills... that's a skill to master.

You need street skills in this game, not book skills.

While academia continues to teach me skills that can be transfered elsewhere.

Hopefully it will help you in some way.1) Unless you've got some serious negotiating skills, be careful about expecting to get the property for around $85k.

That's definitely a skill-set I would love to have.

Once you understand the objectives, your skills as a local market expert come into play;* Where are the best rental opportunities?

There are loopholes in the law, it is your basic understanding, common sense, and legal skills to navigate through it.

Currently, I am completing on average 12-15 units per month and always improving and honing my management skills.  

Maybe we need an Old Codger section on BP for us who have limited computing skills and really don't care to learn ..

However, there's no reason that the time consuming, manual labor needs to be done by an expensive electrician either as long as that skilled technician is supervising the work carefully.