It's a trade-off: You're getting zero vacancy in exchange for taking on some additional risk with regards to/out move-in inspections and damages.

-My wife wants to go to school to get her license to be a realtor (which is awesome) but she said if we are going to start flipping that I should go to school for construction or some specific trade.

I am a contractor/electrician by trade.

@Brittany King If the scope of work is limited and from a single trade, then it’s pretty easy to use the first guy’s quote to get other quotes.

., sole proprietorship) does not violate the Section 1031(a)(1) requirement that the property be used in a trade or business or held for investment. 

It can push out your tax till...never if you trade up, keep, and die.

Born working-class, he abandoned his trade to become an itinerant rabble-rousing rabbi preaching explicitly to the poor and the morally questionable, and at just 33 one of his friends sold him out, the authorities grabbed him, tried him, and tortured him to death between two armed robbers, the scum of the scum. 

Willing to trade work/value for knowledge 

If that is your goal, learn the construction trades - if not, it's not that important. 

I have never held a loan for more than two years on an income property as my goal is to create value and then to trade up into larger properties.