Your skills are honed, and fine tuned in tough times.

Since I started out bird dogging and wholesaling, I know how to find deals and know what works/doesen't work for me - it's a very important skill to learn.

Use the $30K to get a skill that will get you a decent paying job.

Since you will have to pay out of pocket, and if you have the skill set, you may as well make the repairs yourself as soon as you can after the settlement.

It gets the job done faster and better than the rehabber could do it themselves.No one is good at everything, and the things we are least skilled at we usually take the longest to do, and enjoy doing the least.

Glen Beck, or his writers, are very skilled in propoganda techniques and disinformation.

What if a person does not have the skills to earn $7.15 on an open market?

You sit there for about 8 hours a day, following rote learning techniques that allow you to replicate your productivity over and over, and following the instructions of the person in charge while being discouraged from challenging the basic principles of the system.Anyone who can achieve those goals makes an excellent employee in a typical retail or manufacturing workplace...but not a very good innovator...I've run organizations focused on "technology innovation" for a couple of the largest tech companies in the world, so I know the skills, approaches and personalities it takes to be successful at innovation.

Obviously negotiating skills will play into this.

What kind of contractor would I call to look at that & give estimate -- a drywall person, or do I need to use a GC because there is more than one skill involved?