@Joe Gore I tend to agree with Randy, your comments often are ill informed, and sarcastic.

My clients tend to have anywhere from a few hundred k to put down into the millions.Transaction prices are generally in the millions and up although I do work on smaller deals from time to time.Generally people will contact me and I will be very honest with them and tell them if it's something I can help them with or not.Example someone asking to buy a vacant 20 unit apartment building that is thrashed to rehab and is being bought as a short sale etc.

I'd rather collect it myself because she tends to keep some of it.I've spent a lot of time on that side of town including living there a few months and I have yet to feel threatened or unsafe. 

Acrylic is a bad idea, as when it peels, it tends to fall into the drain.

They use tables which tend to be really clean.

Brushes are a bit messy and tend not to hold stain that well.

And yes, it's not the same as profits, but to get to the profit I simply pay for the function as it would cost in the market.I doubt there is an investor that would be significantly better at locating a good deal than a good full time Realtor, they do find them and that is what they charge.It will be par for the course for someone to justify thier abilities as being more valuable, they also tend to blur the functions together.

That's where I would start.Then ask everyone you know who does real estate in your area (hopefully there will be some response from local investors on this thread), try to get Home Depot to give you the names of some of their installers (they tend to make good handymen in my experience), visit your local REIA, stop by job sites as you're driving past and if the work looks good, get a card from the contractors, and as a last resort, start scouring Craigslist.You only need to find one great contractor.

The wife thought I was nuts on that one also.

They tend to write pretty (as some have said) "vanilla" types of risks.