Your assets include your ability to pay, your knowledge, education, management abilities and skills as well as your capital or other financial assets.

The office market is very soft in most suburbs but the inner core is doing really well.

They want someone competent, licensed and with a demonstrated capacity of successful prior projects to perform the repairs such as gutting a bathroom and kitchen using skills like plumbing/electrical/tiling and basic carpentry.

Not only do i appreciate these skills as a way to build wealth for me and mine, I also recognize that when we do what we do... we improve neighborhoods, and lives (hopefully) which further creates better communities! 

She said she can just look online at houses, but she wanted our expertise in the negotiates to get her the best deal.Sure, you could have out of towners coming to the area, so you want to know the market, but it's a simple 1-2-3 search and you can have the market at your fingertips.Negotiation skills... that's a skill to master.

You need street skills in this game, not book skills.

While academia continues to teach me skills that can be transfered elsewhere.

Hopefully it will help you in some way.1) Unless you've got some serious negotiating skills, be careful about expecting to get the property for around $85k.

That's definitely a skill-set I would love to have.

Once you understand the objectives, your skills as a local market expert come into play;* Where are the best rental opportunities?