Being able to tell what constitues a deal or not takes skill and experience, hence doing a couple of deals with someone willing to show you the ropes.

I hope to potentially partner with someone seeking a safe and profitable market opportunity utilizing my local presence and renovation skills.

Sounds like your skill set is a great match for real estate investing!

I would like to find an investor or 2 in Michigan around the Detroit area that could use such skills and work to getting a few of my own properties.

I believe my attorney skills and my dedication can make me very successful in this business.

I currently work as director-level major gifts fundraiser for a non-profit here, but am hoping to parlay some of my skills to a career in real estate.My mother has worked as a real estate agent for a majority of my life (in TX), even starting her own company / brokerage six years ago, so I've grown up on the fringes of the real estate community.

However, my full-time job in corporate strategy provides me three fundamental skills I believe will translate incredibly well to real estate:Quantitative analysis and model-building are core skills to being able to judge the value of a potential market / acquisition in my daily workMy daily success hinges on instilling efficient, scalable business processes and getting creative with incentive alignment to ensure everyone is working toward the same goalAs a strategist, my work on the above has zero bearing if I haven't earned the trust of those who must execute against them.

I have had them drop projects the night before start date, no shows or flat out dishonest about there skill set.

If that's not an option, and you have a W2, I always tell people that one of the most valuable skills I learned was how to save $25K.

It's an art as much as it may be a science.