(military isn't bad, but new leases every year or so from what I've heard and very few casino workers as the closest one to yucca valley is 29 palms)I have found the area to be very misunderstood - as people driving by assume meth labs, sex offenders and neonazis  ---  when instead you find millionaire horse/animal lovers, older retirees who feel like they have found shangri-la, and an increasing amount of younger LGBT creative folks re-creating identity in the serenity of the desert. also, $15/hr minimum wage law is underway - going up $1 a year until $15 in 2020. 

On the funding side, IRAs and HSAs are different animals.

I've read the landlord tenant laws and didn't find anything on service animals. 

When too close to the building squirrels and other animals can invade the roof lines.

I had someone send an obviously fake certificate for an"Emotional Support Animal" and of course it was for a pit bull.

I am not heartless either, injured and abused animals always pull at my heart strings.

Performing notes are great for cash flow where you can diversify and earn high single to low double digit returns.Non performing notes are another animal.

Those of us in the trenches are usually not 'pack animals', but we've had to go against all of the friends and family and aquaintences, who were telling us that we're crazy.

Those are very different animals. 

@Aaron Macpherson i send you an IM for a investment agent in your area.