While you live in the home you can make improvements as time and budget allow, and it’s a great time to start flexing DIY muscles to cut even more costs.3.

Nobody is muscled into a deal, or lied to to get them to believe they are benefiting in a way they are not.

@Hunter FitchEverybody seems to add about 50 lbs of muscle, and a bit more venom to their bite when they are behind a keyboard rather than face to face. 

I'm assuming that you are looking for a undergrad degree, and if I were in your shoes, I'd focus on something more general that flexed your analytical/ problem solving muscles more than trained you to do something specific. 

In those cases you are making money using your mind and less about using your remodeling muscle -- that's a much easier lifestyle.

And if you do seek to work for such contractors, even as a lowly laborer, fetch-n-carry grunt, earth digger with a shovel; then please start working out in a gym so you have the muscle mass & stamina to give an honest day's work to you employer, & you don't end up getting fired.

You build your deal finding/negotiating muscles and you meet a lot of people. 

This incentivizes me to flex my creative muscles to produce quality and cheap work so I can maximize my return on the labor.I’ll probably do more of these types of deals in the future, personally.

Build credit, just like you are building muscle in the gym. 

There's zero benefit here, they just trying to muscle you and control the situation.Plus a long term lease doesn't even offer you anything in terms of security, they can break it with little consequence.