It seems reasonable to me for someone to start under the wings of an investor and trade time for developing some skills to build on. 

When faced with a foreclosed owner who appears calm and not highly aggravated, I derived a method to simply trade time in the property for their actually leaving the property in relatively cleaned-out condition.

To simply say manage is a broad scope of business but is also rather limiting as you may want to buy and immediatley sell a property sometime, that may not meet the scope of business to be conducted and thereby lose the benifits of your LLC if something blows up in such a transaction.Just saying, I prefer to cover the bases specifically, buy, sell, trade, exchange, construct, repair, improve, demolish, develope, lease, sub-let and manage, borrow, advance or lend money and to do all other things necessary and/or related thereto as allowed by law.Doesn't mean you must do those things, just that if you do, it is within the scope of your regular business to be conducted.

I'm in the trades and finding good cintractors is tough.

I've sold small properties and used the proceeds to "trade up" just never within the 1031 structure.

do you ever see a C+ property in a B- neighborhood trading at an 11 cap in that area?

I see lots of building trade hands around here at prices that make me scratch my head.

Personally, I don't like it, but that's just my taste. qkjones is right in that it's a eco-friendly product which makes it desirable for a good number of people but it's not as durable as other hardwood flooring products so there's a trade-off.

Have can-do attitude and am highly motivated to get my real estate business off the ground, eager to learn the trade.

That's the trade off for cash flow.Let me say this, too.