A friend of mine used to belong to this site and they used to be able to post opportunities they had, a few times a day even. They would post offers they provided for hard money, Investment opportunities or even other...

A very badly soiled and damaged carpet in living room had to be torn out and trashed.

Not so much for flooring, roofing, electrical, plumbing, gutters, siding, landscaping, drywall, grading, HVAC, carpentry, painting, etc.I think I used a GC once on the first 10 house I re-hab'ed for removing a load bearing wall.

You can either become a broker or hire a broker of record who you'll have to compensate pretty well because in reality they will bear most of the legal risk for the company.

That's an important distinction that everyone kind of knows, but it bears saying out loud (or, as it were, in writing).2.

I cannot bear ten more months of this.

I look forward to attending REI meetings in the area in the coming months and hope to contribute some helpful information to this forum, myself, once I get my bearings. 

So, it depends on what you want to be, are you looking to be self-employed, or run a business?

It seems to confirm what I have been thing about for than the decade.To recap what you said about Cupertino:An emerging city in 70s and 80s started out as becoming 1) high tech central on entrepreneurial soil, 2) new jobs were created, 3) engineers, high income families, and Asian families arrives in masses, 4) Schools become very strong due to high test scores by high percentage of Asian students, thus 5) local real estate home prices starts to appreciate very quickly ultimately forming a bubble.

One thing to bear in mind in the Smokys is that VRBO is King and AirBNB is the newcomer.