A buyer once handed me a K-Mart plastic bag with $27,000 cash.

Use "Great Stuff expanding foam, plastic sheet and tape, whatever does the trick.Then use Gentrol capsules to stunt their growth so they do not reach egg-laying maturity. 

These solutions offer some disadvantages as follows:-The most significant disadvantage to using a self-directed IRA is that the withdrawal is highly regulated by the IRS due to the qualified tax nature of the IRA.Investments funded by IRAs will lack some plasticity because IRA funds cannot be blended with other funds without risks and legal problems.

Plus Dad works and can apply extra to the rent.Rhode island has a 1st time home buyer program (maybe this will help): https://www.rihousing.com/buyers/If they found their own place even a 1 bedroom 1 bath since MR is so good with woodworking he could make some bunks at each end of a bedroom for all 8 kids with a couple of plastic boxes underneath for each kid and sleep in the living room with Mrs...

They don't have frat parties in Germany, China or Brazil with people drinking beer from red plastic cups on the front lawn of a 5000 SF frat house.

Plus I didn’t like it, it felt like walking on hard plastic.

If I felt a cold draft from a window, I covered it with the plastic film kit in the winter.

well... consider this.If your most beloved little daughter suddenly needs heart surgery.

@Matt ShieldsOh, how well do I know the stink that still haunts your dreams, Matt...Back in the days when I did basic property management and provided handyman services as a sideline for a friend in the business, a tenant once left 15 pounds in plastic-wrapped logs of frozen ground turkey in in a side-by-side fridge and freezer and moved out.

In your part of the country, there are quite often issues with the plasticity of the soils which will require much more substantial amounts of concrete for footer and foundations.