It's really easy for my contractor, one sprays and one uses brushes.

started selling fuller brush at 14 door to door.. bagged groceries.. went to collage for a year did not like it.. got my RE license at 18  and my brokers at 20  top producer within 2 years.. never looked back. on the job training as it were..

brush your teeth.

Our current R.E. market in the U.S. as a broad brush generality (I know there's many exceptions to this) is a declining market, meaning falling values still.

The school of hard knocks (getting stuck with a hammer or paint brush in my hand, whenever a carpenter disappeared on me) was invaluable and nothing, I mean NOTHING, can teach you as being immersed in it.

Now while I know there are landlords who let their houses fall into disrepair and don't care and I would consider them slumlords I think many people paint all landlords in these areas with the same brush and would label them all slumlords because of where they invest.Although I could not invest places like this I do think investors in these areas do something in that they provide housing and preserve some value in areas that would become abandoned or squatters areas.

I would not paint that broad of a brush as to the realtors.

I don't think you can paint with too broad of a brush about landlords getting creamed and more than you can about material costs going up and fix-and-flippers getting creamed.This debates in the abstract are always simple minded.

Just brush them off and keep going if you find they work for you.

@Al D.Um, OK...I suspect that what you're TRYING to express here is that working competently with concrete requires some sort of multiyear professional training and/or insurance and/or God knows what to accomplish.I would post a 3-minute YouTube video on how to use cement patcher here, but the Oberkommando der BiggerPockets won't allow it.The specialized tools necessary to work with cement patcher are a margin trowel (cost 4 dollars), a bucket (cost, 2 dollars), a chip brush (cost, under 1 dollar) and cement patcher (cost, $20 per large bucket).