To qualify, you generally need to spend more than 750 hours per year on real property trades or businesses in which you materially participate.

After 13 years being in this trade I am burnt out and ready for a change.

I am a nurse by trade and have been reading books and consuming a lot of media about investing, but am wondering if a coach could help me find better deals and avoid preventable mistakes.

If you had enough volume in Michigan it might be worth bringing some of these trades up. 

Ideally you want to make sure it's near a major highway so tenants have easy access points to their customer base, especially with the trade type tenants like plumbers, HVAC etc.   

OR get a GC to handle all the different trade folk?

Are you looking for a GC or trying to sub out each trade? 

I never trade with tenants.

Certain trades I wouldn't skimp on, like electrician, plumbers, etc, but sometimes you can get away with bringing them in to do the finish only, or you can pay a licensed trade or GC to come and inspect the work prior to closing up walls, etc.

It's slow out there for a lot of trades in SA right now and I'm not one to gatekeep.