Don't expect to put a seed in the ground at 8am and be eating corn on the cob for dinner.Check out "Sold" by David Greene in the BP bookstore. 

Use A Complete Household System: this is a mixture of rules, culture, communication methods, conflict management method, etc that form a living environment that you and the average person would want to live in for  decades. 

Get a mixture of large area rugs and floor runners. 

Even still the whole picture that Im seeing in these past few candidates have indicated a mixture of that and what i consider fiscal irresponsibility.I think I should just hang tight for a better match.

Easiest way is to make sure your color is close is to have a large enough sample to match and then take their mixture and put a dot directly on the sample and dry it right in the store. 

I am looking to raise money from friends & family or a mixture with people I have pre-existing relationships with such as co-workers or people I know with money or money in they 401k. 

@Jeremy Pace  we have a mixture of SF and multi.  

I just got a clear to close on package of 7 rental refis, mixture of Elgin/South Elgin properties and they all appreciated fairy well across the board.

Examples:-House-hack a house and rent by the room-House-hack a Multi-family -House-hack a Single-family that has an ADU or Guest house-Buy a Single-family house, have the garage converted to a studio and house-hack-You can do a mixture of the above with: short-term, mid-term, or just long-term renting strategies to make more or less from your investmentThere's a lot of considerations with each strategy above from a financing standpoint, cash standpoint, sweat-equity standpoint, start-up time stand point, and management standpoint. 

Ohio has a mixture of markets that offer cashflow and/or appreciation.