Where this overlaps with your question is that I've found that some independent special needs people have a work or life coach to help them keep on track with day to day things like paying rent and job performance.

It may hold true for other areas of life, and maybe even other areas of investing, but I don't see any application to ground up construction.

Born and raised in Agriculture, will be focused on that industry throughout my life.

I live with MS and financial freedom is not a desire but a necessity in my life for this reason.

If you get them in the phone, learn what going with them in their personal life.

I posed two questions awhile ago I asked is there life after modification for investors, I had one faithful BP mod respond, second I asked this question 7 years ago of Henry Savage a columnist with the Washington Times Home Guide.

You may wanna consider starting a "Member Blog" about your remodeling process - http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs - as I think case studies and real life stories are so great for learning from.

Some good free books on Amazon are "Real-Estate made easy" by Brian Haskins "The Ultimate Real Estate Investing Blueprint" by Sean Terry "No Bs Real-Estate Investing" By Preston Ely and "Flipping Houses Exposed: 34 Weeks In The Life Of A Successful House Flipper" by Danny Johnson.

I remember a widow that was our 4th deal telling me when the deal was over she couldn't believe it when I showed up at her door but I was offering her a solution and then she told me she had two other properties to sell so she could get on with her life and asked us to help her on those.

And maybe there will be a itty bitty bit of networking value to tip the scales.Guru-rater John Reed has him on his crap list, fwiw, so probably a low-life upseller :)