The two biggest job growth areas are manufacturing and health care. 

What are some legal ways we could keep the house and still qualify for home health care or even a nursing home?

Healthcare is not cheap nor are the day to day living expenses for two retirees in their 60’s.

Since Interior Design can have many dynamics of interest, such as residential/commercial/healthcare/or within government job, it depends  what purpose an individual wants to flourish with.

In return, the people received cash, training, education, and health care.

HUGE chance that one or both had Medicaid, which can be a deal breaker if your courts require to notify your state health care dept.

With their less-than-elite healthcare, and the shabby border control between the US and Mexico, what situations do you see arising?

I work a full time job in healthcare and have become fascinated by the potential to provide supplemental income, increased net worth and eventually a legacy for my family.

Taken from http://www.irs.gov/uac/Form-1099-MISC,-Miscellaneo...Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous IncomeFile this form for each person to whom you have paid during the year: at least $10 in royalties or broker payments in lieu of dividends or tax-exempt interest;at least $600 in rents, services (including parts and materials), prizes and awards, other income payments, medical and health care payments, crop insurance proceeds, cash payments for fish (or other aquatic life) you purchase from anyone engaged in the trade or business of catching fish, or, generally, the cash paid from a notional principal contract to an individual, partnership, or estate;any fishing boat proceeds, gross proceeds of $600, or more paid to an attorney during the year, orwithheld any federal income tax under the backup withholding rules regardless of the amount of the payment.Also, use this form to report that you made direct sales of at least $5,000 of consumer products to a buyer for resale anywhere other than a permanent retail establishment.

(I've just retired from the military so have one income stream and health-care plan).My pre-licensing class starts in Feb and I plan to be licensed and active by Apr in Asheville NC.No real questions that haven't been answered before, just putting it out there to keep myself accountable. :)