As your skills grow, you can renegotiate new terms with your private money investors. 

New skills learned:  re-keying doorknob locksets. 

This does not happen without a fair bit of moderately skilled woodworking and tiling labor on my part.

I have had numerous scammers message me from BP wanting to be partners, wanting me to invest in their whatever...and many have less writing skills that my Nigerian Prince who is going to marry me and make me rich after he gets all his treasures back from his wicked uncle.

I did it, but you need to have the skills to cut the line and install these or a plumber friend.  

Yes, I agree my market, comfort level with my skills as an investor, etc. will help as time goes on.

In one of the best-known studies illustrating this particular human vanity, in 1981 161 driving students in Sweden and the USA were asked about their safe-driving skills, 93% of the American students considered themselves above-average, while only 69% of the Swedes did likewise.

You could hit Texas with money flowing into your pocket and the skills to setup a brand new market to profit off of. 

I  understand what you mean by staying out of the contractors way, I do have about 7-10 days before the contractor was going to start work so that's why I was going to remove certain things we already discussed removing.I appreciate the advice about how to being a better employer and trying to manage the overall project rather than getting into some of the details that don't fit my skill set. 

Value-Add - If you have the skill set and can do it time-effectively, absolute best return.