No skills involved.

Given the shortage of qualified contractors and trades it might take a while for the gap to close.

It took skill in negotiating to get the buyer to waive the home inspection contingency.Those combined are what resulted in the seller obtaining 7 offers in 1 day and the fantastic successful offer.4.

I called and told him I'm paying him for licensed skilled workers but I'm not seeing any of that.. he couldn't argue with that he just got upset and pretended he did not know they were unlicensed (even though he told me before they have been working for him for years and he crew also confirmed that).

I knew that I can't rely too much on one thing so here I am, continuing on with college, working to gain experience for my High-Income Skills and starting the plan for my first Rental Property Investing business. 

I've been following this thread, and others, and wonder - amidst all those newbies who are looking for that get rich quick golden egg, there's some who choose to enter this Real Estate arena as a wholesaler without the full blinders, knowing it's a hard road (maybe not just how hard, granted, but knowing it's not an easy walk) and you need to get some contacts and teaching and mentors - how do the serious folk choosing wholesaling, wanting to use their time and skills to assist investors, how do they *not* get dismissed outright as we're all smushed into the same grouping just by using the word "wholesaling"?  

Account Closed Did you own a skilled nursing facility?

And since you are a contractor you can take advantage of your skills most in your home market .Sounds like you need to start driving for dollars, engaging some wholesalers, networking, etc. in your market.

Flipping a house takes a lot of time, skill and money.

As for multi family or single family, that all comes down to how much money you have, what you want to achieve with your investing and what your skill sets are.I host a meetup group in Nanaimo once a month for investors.