There were a few slight distractions like figuring out financing, selling a neighboring lot (that I had also acquired via letter writing) on Craigslist, rent out my RV, rent out my house, make my first ever documentary film (a twenty minute short called Kara, Star Of The World about a woman with a traumatic brain injury from a childhood ski accident), take any photo and video work I could get, start a 360 photography company, create social media channels to hype the build, parent two small kids, do a beautiful and excruciating tandem mountain bike ride across Scotland, drive my family on RV trips to Colorado/Arizona/Utah/Nevada/California/Wisconsin/Minnesota/Michigan/Florida, attempt to write a novel and adopt a puppy.The above may read as humble brag, it is not.

Often they leave before the nice Sheriff forces them, because they know you'll be filming the fun action.

Have invested in ABQ with first purchase in 2020 - and that was based on my knowledge as a film/TV friendly area and affordability.

Self employed in the film industry, grossed about 140k last year.

I rent that home out to filming companies which nearly covers the mortgage. 

I have two corps: TV/Film corp and RE corp. 

The smoke will leave a film and turn it yellow.

If you've seen Jesse Piemons take over the whole film in his five minutes in Civil War, I think you know where I'm coming from.But to get away from that kind of existential dread, I also think that a lot of the newbies that come to these particular forums wonder WHY there are a bunch of people with actual money who have actually done something with it actually sitting at their keyboards typing away here and trying to help others.

is a demand for MTR for the film industry?

And some mistakes were made by tradesmen but looking back I didn't ask the correct questions or have the knowledge to make certain they wouldn't make mistakes (such as knocking down a vented chimney - that happened once and although it was on the roofer I now know I must make certain the roofers know the venting situation prior).I'll close with this - when I worked in film and was a lowly production assistant a higher-up said "You know what I like about you?