. :) Enjoy your day, Sir.

I am a local realtor and my husband is a general contractor.

Can you recommend any quality and dependable contractors and area handymen?

It messes up our entire schedule with movers and flooring contractors if they delay our closing because we can't close on our next house until AFTER closing on our current house.

Furthermore, contractor referrals would also be great!

I'm making my way into REI and so far, while the market is very competitive I'm my area (Hudson / Bergen counties in NJ), I'm finding properties which are worth, at minimum, analyzing well and making some offers.That said, I could really use some recommendations/referrals to general contractors and so I'm hoping the BP community could help!

I can coordinate CL-100 lettersI can coordiante many repair estimates based off measurements I take during the inspection and provide those to a variety of differnt contractors I deal with, without having to schedule them on-site.My reports come with a repair request tool for agents that really looks good, quick and easy to use In my reports I put into perspective the how severe an item found is or isn’t in attempts to aid in keeping the buyer from freaking out. 

@Tim Gathers I am a broker and licensed contractor here in Detroit dealing mainly with multifamily and 2 family flats.

Then I would fix & flip the property.So, There really are only two options I can think of. 1) Find an "off market" property that you can take "Subject To, on a "Wrap", or a "Land Contract" or a "Lease Option and proceed with either Fix & Flip or Buy & Hold or sell to a Tenant Buyer (my favorite).2) Find someone on the mainland that you can Joint Venture with in a market your finances can afford.Either way, you have to start somewhere.

Calgary is softening up on some of the housing prices but won't be comparable to the success you have enjoyed in the states.