I literally grew with buildings as my father, brother and I built three homes from the foundation up when my brother and I were in our early to late teens and we mixed mortar, cut lumber to size, and participated in all trade elements of the additions to our own home prior to that. I worked as a carpenter during the summers when in college. I own and occupy a duplex that required substantial rehab ( significant fire damage) that I purchased in 1980 while working as a construction rehab specialist for the City of Indianapolis in their Department of Economic and Housing Development where I wrote the specs and managed the project to rehab boarded up HUD repos for resale.
I’ve looked at buying foreclosures and so forth in the past (prior to the recent bubble’s burst) and even went to the trouble of getting an Indiana Real Estate Broker’s license to access the MLS to find the properties and have the data to make the right buys. Late-night TV infomercials on how to get rich quick with real estate “deals “ made everything I found sell at prices high enough that, unless you were totally unscrupulous, there was almost no such thing as “the right buy”.
The point of the above, probably boring tangent is: After a career in sales of equipment and machinery, I’d love to work with the myriad of vacant, sometimes distressed properties that must be out there now being held by mortgage companies, etc. on the inspection/assessment/management side of it all! Finding the right, most efficient way to enter the business is the challenge when I have not actually been working for a company doing inspections and so forth . If anyone in this Forum has any suggestions, please feel free to comment!
Thanks!