Forget the gold...sell shovels...

Building the homes on shovel ready lots won't be an issue to find lending for .

Of course, there is a good chance this will flare up again and I'll need to put your advice into practice!

And detached housing tenants always cut the grass and shovel the snow, and often take care of minor maintenance. 

You can mow yards, shovel snow, haul junk, clean houses or any number of low skill jobs.

Tell me the other info and I can tell you how to deduct their home, property tax, house insurance and even expense their garden shovel and garden gloves.  

His perspective is "The People that made the most money during the California gold rush were the guys selling shovels and pickaxes to the gold-seekers.

Eventually went to Goodwill for my clothes, ate bologna sandwiches for lunch for years (I don’t/won’t now, lol), cut my own hair (still do, because I don’t have a lot of it anyway), we refinished garage sale furniture and sold it, we shoveled driveways, then got into online sales of dvd/blurays (still do it) weekends and nights sending stuff out.

Given the fact GA and FL are syndicate states, you would think the same rules would apply. 

"When everybody is digging for gold, it's good to be in the pick and shovel business" - Someone smarter than me.