Oh my...HAHAHAMoses is shaking his head right about now, sayin - I lead these schmucks out of the freakin desert and this is how they behave...trading pigs...it ain't kosher...should have left them in the freakin desert!

They couldn't turn their back on the dollar if they wanted to do so.They can quit 'investing' in the dollar.Buying commodities is not a hedge against inflation, it is a hedge against the dollar completely collapsing and no longer accepted for commerce or trade in this country.

I know they work in places with little competition because I had a few areas like that back in 2000-2003.Vacant, abandoned, code violations, defaults (of any kind), deceased owners, divorce, forced placed liens.....I look at any possible motivation, but haven't found that many sources for lists so create them myself.Without giving away any trade secrets, are you targeting anything specific?

John I may not be able to contribute to the project costs or trades but once you have it figured out let's talk financing.

The trades portion is just... asinine.

I would treat it as a lesson learned, one that most investors go through early in their real estate career.Construction attracts many deadbeats, since the barrier of entry to many trades can be so low (ie painting).  

The third way you can gain confidence is to buy a small number of shares in different publicly traded companies.

I am now learning more of other trades in order to be more fluent in all trades.

Most investors who scale end up with some combination of all of it (hold some, flip some, refinance some, trade up to larger properties). 

I think you’d greatly benefit by hiring professionals in their respective trades vs trying to be a jack of all trades / DIY’ing everything.