Well, as for being able to do the work yourself, we all had to learn sometime. The best way to learn is to be "the man" with respect to your buddies doing home renos. That's how I learned, made it known that not only was I offering to help, but I really wanted to help. Then not only do you learn, but you have a friend who now owes you a favour. Within my circle of friends we are always trying to pay it forward. I have friends who 3 years ago didn't own a hammer and couldn't tell me the difference between a phillips and a robertson- now they are building projects on their own.
Or swap services. You say you can paint- do you say that because it doesn't look hard or because you have done it and find it easy? If its the latter, make sure you offer to help your friends who aren't good at it, but are good at other things. For example, I suck at mudding drywall. My neighbour hates electrical. But we are both good at what each other isn't. I'm wiring his garage next week for him, and he's going to mud my drywall for me.
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