What skills or experience do you have in financing, real estate, or crowdfunding business model development?

Your deal will be contingent on your negotiating skills, along with any out of the box strategy you can think of to meet the seller's needs/wants.

Your friends not using you isn't a big deal but this post is a red flag for your lack of social skills.

Looking to connect, find a mentor, and contribute my current skills to an experienced real estate investor/agent/wholesaler in hopes of developing new ones and starting my own business in the future.

It’s a crucial skill, and one that is needed to be able to make quick decisions in a hot market

I prefer to be passive which let’s me earn more money with my skills.

I had few if any marketable skills, or at the very least had no idea how to market the abilities which I did possess.

@Jack SzalasnyI am in need of a GC, but I can use all skills

now if you do demo , the skill level is much lower than a carpenter , their pay would be around $17 an hour .

It is possible to arrive at 400k, but the concern is, as a newbie how to get the right finishes at minimizes the costI’m not expecting that number, I simply used $390k-$395k as you gave an exit value range of $370k-$400k in your original post.As far as getting the right finishes without exceeding the budget, that takes, skill, experience, and connections.