My father is a former contractor with experience in new builds and renos and in his later years was a building inspector.

Aside from that, I’m a husband, father of two girls and another one on the way at the moment of writing this.

I'm doing my first partnership flip with my father.

Get more than 2 appraisals not selected by his father through a valuation company.

My father is in the real estate business as a broker for about 40 years and he has taught me a little bit.  

We have a tight budget of 20k for a cosmetic remodel and most of the work we will be doing ourselves along with my father in law who used to work in construction (Hardwood floors, 2 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms.)

I'm a 48 year husband, father of one and a professional tower crane operator by trade. 

What you refuse to see is the workstaff and the elderly being kicked out of their rental homes because investors buy the home and triple the rent, I've seen an 83 year old woman simply thrown out onto the street, I've seen a single father thrown out onto the street, and another family I am acquainted with thrown out because their rent wasn't profitable enough, and these buyers are abusing landlord tenant laws because they know tenants most likely will not do anything about their abuse, such as kicking them out before the lease is up, turning off their utilities, etc. 

Honestly I was thrown into it my father was a builder and had run some of his own investments and flips.

(My father is in Silverton, and brother, in Portland.)