Some jobs pay an hourly wage, some pay per piece you make, some have some sort of bonus potential.

I would highly recommend reading books, following RE investor's blogs, read through threads on bigger pockets, attend local AREIA events, research your market, take a local investor out to lunch..... there is a ton of ways to gather information and learn this business.Once you spend some time researching and reading, you'll be able to start putting the pieces together by asking questions here.

Mike - Please read the forum rules regarding promotions and advertisements.If you're looking to promote your business, this will come in handy:How to Promote Your Business with BiggerPocketsAs for Brendan's comments - hysterical!

If you're just looking for a quick way to rig it, I'd attempt to shim it from the bottom side with various pieces of 1"x_"

It's for a marketing piece I'm working on, so complex charts would probably scare Joe homebuyer off.Thanks for looking through your stuff!

So if I was allowed to only give a new investor only one piece of advice it would be to jump in and worry about learning as you go.

Recent grads are also having a harder and harder time finding employement, many of whom are piecing together part time, seasonal, and temporary work.

I would suggest to promote contraceptives to people who cannot raise their children right (Free condoms perhaps?)

I heard they were a couple hundred a piece..

My wife & I are purchasing a small piece of vacant land (~2.5 acres and hopefully closing by end of this month), and will be immediately starting to build a small log cabin that will be used as a rental property and personal "getaway" a few times per year.