I'm checking it out now and it looks comprehensive, and fairly plug-and-play.

Lastly I got flesh eating disease on my butt that required a 7 week hospital stay, 5 surgeries and 3 scrapings.

Is it profitable if you grind your butt off?

There are tons of great resources here to plug into and grow your knowledge of real estate.

If they say they will be there at 7am and they are not, then they will be getting a phone call from me saying "get your butt here now".

You are already plugged in here.

The nice part of being the old man in the room is I can just plug along on my path and don't even desire to play the game hard like you young bucks and does do.I can invest in single family for all cash in B - C areas for cash flow and you youngsters can tell me how much more I could make with leverage in multi family and I can just turn down my hearing aids and chuckle.

In my experience, the short answer is network your butt off and make it clear you’re looking for a partner. 

I've heard the term sweat equity plenty of times before and I understand it very basically as working your butt off in exchange for discount on the price of the home.

You will have to plug in the current fuel-cost numbers for your area as I made this chart up some years ago for a customer.