You can find a cheaper contractors at $40 per sq ft but it reminds me of playing craps at the casino.

You guys are so doom and gloom, come on man, the fed (that caused all this btw) is going to save EVERYONE, Banks, credit unions, trust and mortgage companies, investment banks, underwriters, brokerage firms, hard money lenders, stock speculators, the airline, auto, restaurant,hotel, bar, retail, casino, and travel industries,money market funds, the repo market, the global fx market, the stock market (direct purchases soon), the bond market, the derivatives market (oop's sorry ronin capital), consumer spending (helicopter money only 3 weeks away), your local bowling league and oh yea, air bnb.Don't worry the largest financial event of our lifetimes, BY FAR, will be over in a jiff and you will be rested and ready to get back to work!

How do casinos and state lotteries profit or fund everything they promise to fund? 

Or go to the local casinos, if you just want to gamble your money away.Think.  

Any casinos around?  

I didn't know what we were going to do after I lost my whole paycheck at the casino....er, I mean......."

But I see other seniors in my building with gambling problems (lots of Indian casinos around here), who smoke cigarettes and/or pot, who spend their money at the local bar, going out to eat, buying new clothes, etc.  

But, you'd be amazed at how someone supposedly broke finds money for new cars and cigarettes and the casino, etc.  

., and the only reason they are broke is because they blow all of their money at the casinos, and on cigarettes and going out to eat or to the bars, etc.If you go ahead and raise her rent to market rent, she will cope.  

Omg, had to post the update, I went to collect the rent and turns out the tenant had needed the $ to go to the casino because she "needed to screw".