Roommate = we agree that my milk is mine, not yours.You can definitely have both and there's value there. 

The only place those two numbers belong near anything to do with REI is on the milk cartons in the refrigerators in those rental units. 

Check your local recycling center for free paint.

Besides its good to recycle right?

A standard large trash bin per unit with a family of four should not need more than 2 pick ups per week with regular trash.Does your current provider offer the recycle bins??

You know the old saying, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie he'll ask for a glass of milk . 

The whole time the convention is milking dry what little money the new agent has to survive and NAR is getting money back on a side deal with the third party vendors.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

Not to say they can't source the right materials, but I see lots of opportunity for problems.Shipping containers have been used here in the US to build tiny homes, but usually it is recycled containers and assembled here.

Around here in rural America many tenants will run out of propane and use milk house heaters.