If there's someone with strong marketing skills, deep Japanese knowledge, we'd love to get to know you and perhaps partner up.I don't mind sharing information about the properties we'll be viewing next week.

After helping others with their investments from start to finish for so many years, I am looking to use my knowledge & skills to diversify & develop different streams of income. 

GregIf he is an employee of yours Workers comp is great protection for him AND you.His regular medical coverage will not pay for injury expenses.

I have great sales skills having learned sales from a fortune 100 company in the past and have a fair degree of experience with marketing, albeit primarily online marketing.

Break it down by trade and it can fluctuate immensely by the sub, their skill level and the relationship in regards to labor and material discounts.Depending on the local gov and permit regs a seemingly easy job can get way off course with timelines, inspections, new laws, codes , materials, designing the layout fit functionaly within the foundation footprint ,etc.Your basiclally selling a construction project and not rental propery requiring rehab.

Now I sent 4-6k mailers a month, get a .5 to 1.25% response rate, and can still answer my own phone most of the time.I can only speak for myself, but I strongly believe it's in your best interest to answer as many of the sellers' calls as you possibly can, for several reasons.The first is that you will never have a better chance to hone your negotiating skills and develop your phone "personality" than you will when answering seller calls.

It seems like it has potential for rental income, a lot of properties are under 200k, and there is UMass medical school there so lots of renters.

With the medical district set to be complete by mid 2015, the areas you are searching for and currently live in are going to  be in high demand. 

Maybe I should take it up, seems like a good skill to have for networking/negotiations, haha.

Some may think those experiences/skills are on opposite sides of the spectrum, but the combination of the two have enabled me to become an entrepreneur and explore diversity of other roles.I am glad to have found this collective wealth of information and look forward to meeting and learning from many of you!