If you got allot of money and no time, get one and let somebody else do the training, you'll still have to do obediance trianing though, if you have no money and lots of time, do it all yourself, buy a couple of books, more than one!, and read them, and fallow through with the ideas in them, and make it a priority, or you will not be satisfied with the end result, you can also find trainer close by that will give you and the dog lessons, he can tell you what you should be working on and what not, maybe have the dog ff by him, unless you don't want to ff, but I think doing it yourself, if your motivated, is well worth the time and effort.