I work in music for film and television, and unfortunately still need to live in Los Angeles for the foreseeable future (though that my change).

Have you explored renting by the room, vacation rental, traveling nurses, rent for filming, etc. to increase cash flow?

It was a chiropractor office on the lower level with an apartment upstairs that still has the x-ray machine/equipment and patient x-ray films.

Once you have that down, then you can take Feminist Film Theory or whatever you want to make yourself a better person.

Filming porn, massage parlors with happy endings, etc.

But perhaps I'm not as efficient or as creative as I can be (good chance since I'm newer in the business), and I keep hearing about people who've gone from living in their car to filming their guru programs at their beachfront mansion in Florida.  

. :) Friends can do the filming and photography.

Sanding is a must, kitchen cabinets tend to get a thin coating of film on them from cooking.

Once we had a film crew come by for a major network to film on an aircraft we sold that was being delivered to South America.

I could film a video of me flushing it, and you can hear it start knocking as soon as I close the valve and turn the flame back up.