Management skills and abilities, if you operate a tight ship you won't be negligent and you'll never get hammered for a broken step or hand rail.2.

I also replace the kitchen and bathroom floor tiles because of cracking and not being level right.

I currently am in an admin position at a Hedge Fund, and have worked in Real Estate Commercial Development/Property Management for a few years, but also as a research assistant/ admin asst/ office manager.How do I leverage my skills to get out of Admin?

You get to 'find yourself' and 'work' at the same time.If you are a really terrible student and school it hell for you, only then would I say to bag out of college, but I would hope that you learned some skills(like your handyman example) that will get you better than 'part-time unskilled labor).

Deep discounts to market value are possible, but, in our experience, rare {most markets in Canada are small enough that inventory levels are moderate and there is no need to dump the property}.Lenders - particularly the Big 5 banks - tend to prefer Power of Sale as it's more cost effective for them: No/less legal expense; they do not need to maintain the property while it is for sale; the owner/borrow is motivated to get the best price possible for the property (and not to trash it); and, if the property sells for less than the note, the borrow is still on the hook for the balance.

Time to focus on getting those dogs and put my home improvement skills to work.Jon Klaus, guess sometimes we need to hear something more than once before it clicks.Thank you both!

I think consistency is more important that frequency if we could start doing it once a month that would be great, and depending on the level of interest can increase frequency or break out subgroups for different Boroughs, I myself live in Queens and wouldn't mind starting Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island subgroups for example but let's start with the general NYC group and see how it goes?

Maybe you have the skill, connections, knowledge or talent that allows you to overcome all of these things - people have done it before and have been very successful.

Another issue is they are often couch surfing, between housing, so where they are now may not reflect their housekeeping skills.

I wish I had that level of detailed information for my company's portfolio.