The way you offset your income is through the tax strategies available to real estate investors, which include depreciation, car expenses, clothing, cellphone, meals, computer, Internet, home office, travel, etc.

Paying for the roof over head, feeding and clothing family, buying healthcare insurance (I like HSA plans for the investment opportunity), put gas in the non-work car, etc. all comes from somewhere. 

Because our tenants only need to bring their clothes and laptop and can rent just the months they will be at the university, we can charge much higher rents than an average student can afford.

What we have needed are grocery store workers, gas station attendants, doctors, nurses, first responders, food pantry volunteers, caring neighbors and everyday citizens who pulled together to sew makeshift masks out of random cloth.8.

Mission Statement: We have all been taught that the three basic needs of human survival are food, clothing, and shelter.

Hard water in rural communities, whether it's municipal or well water is hard on appliances, bad on cloths, unenjoyable to drink, and a hazard to boil.

If that means living frugal, not buying new clothes, cooking at home or reducing screen time.

Our tenant claims the washer is terrible about leaving fuzz on her clothes and sometimes does not rinse all the soap off.

I don't know the arragement you have with your family friend, but if you don't bring cash to the table, it is going to take A LOT of successful flips to keep you housed, fed, and clothed, unless your friend wants to run a charity.I have a full-time mechanical engineering job in a chemical plant.

Create an identity, a brand if you will - that makes you synonymous with whatever it is you're trying to do.Think about Clorox...they have done so much marketing over the years that people don't think "bleach" when it comes to whitening their clothes, they think "Clorox."