Of course as he stayed in his nice air conditioned office which he rightfully earned I sweated in the shop with no AC doing manual labor.

When you invest, time, money and sweat in a project, your focus and dedication are all in the same place and learning can be accelerated.....as they said, experience is your best teacher. 

The greatest rate of return tends to come with the greatest risk of failure.Low-income properties can bring a much better return but they will require more sweat equity and sleepless nights.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Enduring this heat and my body sweating, it hit me "what the hell am I doing with my life"?!??

I very much like the PM sweat equity play..

I did some more research and found a lot of clauses saying that the person who lends with the IRA can't be involved in any of the real estate operations or "sweat equity".  

With a lot of hard work, help from our contractors, sweat equity, and tremendous effort and support from our family, business partners, and friends we were able to fix this property and make a nice profit.

Otherwise get a partner and allow them to be the sweat equity partner and they do the management part and you do the finding of the deals. 

It'll help with stress and also sweating will allow you to remove toxins from your body.