My agent was surprised at the knowledge that I had obtained here and that gave me the confidence to get started. 

I will easily be able to relate to people are have a non-performing note and I'm confident in my skills that I will get some people to get the note back to performing and save their lives. 

This property is in a good area and gave me the opportunity to dip my toes into real estate and gain some experience and confidence.

Having the important things done first gives you the early victories and an increased confidence the remainder of the day.

After touring the unit with 4 or 5 GC's, here's what I've got:From all but one, I have confidence they can do the job, but they are booked up and can't begin work until Oct/Nov and in some cases not until January.

The reno is scheduled to end on November 18 (and we've worked in buffer time, so I'm confident we'll be done by then).

being confident in the calculations is posing to be difficult.

Knowledge builds competence and confidence. 

You would need to be confident that you can turn the house around in whatever length of time you set.

For sale by owner, probably not one with as many repairs as normal but I needed something relatively simple to get the wife confident with the process.