Can I cover it with a "drop" cloth?

I have to stay up late at night to study might as well do laundry then it minimizes the chance of running into someone else doing laundry at the same time and have my load removed from the dryer etc...A lock could have the potential issue of locking someone's clothes out.

You can always throw a droop cloth down but paint requires 30 days to totally cure.

These are places people have to drop money for a service and they can't look around and then buy online cheaper. 90% of retail failures  last year were clothing and furniture store related so I avoid those like the plague.

Put up a bulletin board (some people cal it a Vision Board), somewhere you will see it everyday, and tack up pictures of jewelry, clothes, a vacation house, even a picture of $100 bills....whatever motivates you to take action, and take the steps that will get you closer to being able to buy all the things you want in life.

Are you wearing clothes in your profile pic?

Patrick, go to Autozone on Jackson Ave with a paint brush in your hand or find the guy with paint on their clothes.  

Even clothes dryers up there run on natural gas.  

If you or anyone else, including your tenant, let anyone stay OVERNIGHT and they bring clothes, etc...they are a TENANT.

Buy your clothes from thrift shops.