If you have some expendable Capital I would definitely invest into some blue chips in the stock market.

Both expend increasing resources to out-compete each other, but only the winner makes a profit. 

Preparing form contracts isn't an overly complex matter and the amount of time expended to create the contracts can be estimated, so I would suggest trying to get a flat-fee rate over an hourly fee for completing such tasks. 

Should a tenant "need" to expend cash for something, that cost recovery is by invoice, and not withheld from the rent.

We, the people who made our CEO’s millions, deserve the praise and appropriate compensation for busting our asses 40 to 80 hours a week, so that they could go play golf and write it off as a business meeting.I chose a few years back to convert my time to fixing the problems that I care most about, instead of helping build up the people who treat 80% of us as an expendable resource.

You'll need to expend some budget upfront on soft costs just to get the project permitted, priced up, etc...

So, I'm here looking to soak up all the knowledge I can from the individuals who are where I want to be.If the current economic climate has taught me anything, it would be that we are expendable as employees and can be fired or laid off at the drop of a hat (which happened to me).

Anytime you expend money for a gain you are investing.

I'd prefer not to necessarily be found so easily; however, I know that if someone wants to find out something they can...it just depends on how much time and $$$ they are willing to expend!

I could never understand how much effort they will expend to scam the system rather than just getting a job.