Females are not incapable Richard. I've laid plenty of tile, installed backsplashes, including with natural marble, done trim carpentry, plaster work (I'm better at plaster than anyone else I've come across), roofing, painting, refinishing of wood floors, mudded dry wall, done brickwork and stone work and taken down full sized trees with a chain saw and designed and installed tons of landscaping. Sometimes I cut my own grass. So I've done plenty of manual labor on properties I own and have an interest in (as you are doing now). Doing all that taught me a great deal about what those trades involve, what to look for, what things cost, and how to manage jobs and costs. Extremely valuable information.
But my time is better spent working from the neck up. I make more money finding new deals and doing my consulting business than I will ever earn painting or laying tile, which is why I never did it for anyone other than myself. It actually was costing me money (in lost consulting income) to do my own painting and tile. So I quit doing that.