This can take on a lot of different forms, from making sure they're budgeting well, maintaining their premise appropriately, assisting with transportation, facilitating in-home care for more medically fragile veterans, etc. 

You can put your friend into a position of being an unregulated lender, check your state laws for exemptions and number of loans they may do.

Whenever I talk to a novice investors or non-RE investor their opinion is always negative on public transportation expansion and developments by the city.

Do you know how to optimize local transportation expenses?

It is an unregulated company offering a "shiny dream" to drivers just like those "sell knives" or "sell $1000 vacuum cleaners" and live in a mansion. 

Location is key and with colleges and universities and public transportation growing, you can find properties like this.

P NW suggests to call your local mill and get rates, estimate board feet on a particular parcel, and budget 50% of the worth for cutting and transportation costs, is this generally accurate?

It would also serve as a backup career if I lose my job....which appears likely in the next 1-3 years.Hard money lending is mainly unregulated (in almost all states) if you deal with commercial deals.

Add in another .75% for transit and transportation and you get a total sales tax rate of 8.125% in San Antonio.

@Nicole Generette  First of all welcome to BP.A business associate who works for a landlord that owns 100+ rentals told me that Lakeland is not the best for section 8 because public transportation is not the best there.