I think in the future more and more students will forgo college and instead turn to specific trades schools.  

Can anybody recommend a Painter, Plumber, Framer and Electrician? I need to rehab some apartment units in north Long Beach ASAP. Thanks very much!

The other thing I would look at is any small business that is in the trades.. we are not teaching youngsters how to build anything any more which has led to all sorts of billy bob GC types.. owning a nice plumbing or electrical business. a nice roofing company etc.. 

We traded it in for a 1898 Victorian in downtown COS.

, just looking to understand the trade-offs.Thanks!

A broker should be able to show you "dark trades" so that you can see what a empty or empty-ish building is trading in your market.

@Bryan Beal I am a local Realtor/investor with 10 yrs exp in the building trades (commercial carpentry/custom homebuilding) p.m. me if you have any questions or I can help in any way.

The knob and tube will be mostly replaced although I haven't figured out whether to re-trade or meet them in the middle or what yet.

All of which depend on the sub code officials governing each trade in the town.

I'll second what Jennifer said, you can run into a lot of regulatory and legal problems with hard money lending, so I would start by trying to find out first, is there a trade association in your area for hard money lenders?