If they are laid off, are their skills transferable to other industries.

It's not for non highly skilled workers, but you'll want to make sure you have insurance to cover those workers and not rely strictly on licensed contractor's insurance policies.

Tailor your resume to demonstrate that you have the skills required to succeed in the field - customer service, decision making, conflict resolution, budgeting, accounting, etc.Don't give up.

You have been welcomed by great minds diversely skilled and wicked smart colleagues. 

I highly recommend doing a flip first with an experienced person, maybe you have some skills that the other person doesn't have.

I don't know if organization skills are genetic.

Multi-family is awesome as a "business" and has to be run as a business so it's a diferent "skill-set".

Training can be fairly minimal as long as the call center has agents with good English and phone skills - and your manual is solid.

However, once each one of those REI steps out of the vehicle, all they have is their personality, knowledge and skill.

It doesnt matter if you are a fix and flip investor of a work for equity sort of buyer, there is money to be made, often in big chunks, if you have repair skills.