, to which he replied "OK...but, while you were marveling at that fancy kitchen upstairs, I was in the basement crawlspace.

Install the fancy stuff when you're wealthy.

If you want a cash-flow rental something has to give; you can't have the luxury granite countertops, fancy tile flooring, and highest end finishes and cut costs at the same time.

I have several friends in this area that are shelling out big bucks for these fancy units to power their own houses off the grid, but they are all relatively new.

If you do this, you dont have to get fancy or complicated but be steady and if you dont die you will become wealthy.  

Their calculators are really self-explanatory and even spit out a fancy looking report once you've finalized your analysis.

The replacement windows don't need to be fancy at all.

You won't get a fancy 30 year locked in rate (or at least I haven't been able to find one yet).I hope this helps!

By that, I mean your decisions have been based on a journey through life and not a journey to personal jets and fancy hats.

They were definitely trying to line their pockets with their excessively fancy and expensive mailers.So, you take a marginally intelligent, but hardworking kid with no leadership, have his teachers tell them they need to go to college, they receive attention and a fancy mailer from salesmen, and it's a recipe for disaster.