They think I do not have to practice or stay in shape or learn other skills to defend myself.They also let their guard down too much feeling they have a weapon so are in a superior position.

Your attorney skills may come in very handy for doing creative deals.

Here's a great opportunity to exercise a skill that you will commonly need and use when "doing real estate investing!"

I have many skills.

The reason I use "investments" in quotes is because, as you indicated, Kelly Criterion is typically used by gamblers who have the opportunity to make positive-expectation bets -- most commonly sports bettors and skilled blackjack players.I actually played professional blackjack for a couple years in college, and Kelly was the basis of my overall betting strategy.

Being able to do your own plumbing can save you thousands.I have found that something low skilled (like painting) is well worth hiring out.

but, I would have to honestly assess my skills and whether it would work for us.

I believe and my experience is that if you network within your actual sphere of friends/neighbors you will be surprised to find out who is skilled and may be able to do the work less costly with quality work.

Though his written English is very good.I'm one of those, not so rare, Canadian anomalies who learned to speak both English and French growing up, but my formal education was in English, so my writing skill is very weak in French.Now, if I could only digest a portion of the information you share here regularly, I'd be beyond my private funding hurdle.BTW: Who's Ron ;-)

Dion DePaoli a "transaction engineer" is someone skilled in applying the most efficient strategy with the least amount of risk in getting a transaction perfected.