As a Building Engineer, I know how to take care of buildings, and I want to learn how to put my skills to work on a property of my own to provide more value to my family and my community.One of my first jobs when I was 16 was as a helper for a property management company in Hawaii. 

I was just a helper for other places. 

Is there a reason the two girls do not work outside the home.You are right next to Toledo, Sonic Drive in hires people to roller skate food to their cars, and they get good tips.City jobs are stable, working in the library, or clerical in the different departments, or a 911 dispatcher, etc...Why not buy a double wide outside the city line for cheap (if you can get one cheap) and move your family out there.Not a trailer park, just on a lot somewhere.Because as you get older you might like having three helpers around to go grocery shopping, watch TV with, cut the grass and rake the yard, drive you to the doctors office when you feel ill--stuff like that.911 Job (no heavy lifting)--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Start as a helper and get them to pay for school.  

If it's time you are worried about, buy 2 and get a helper.

Perhaps we could share a pool of helpers. 

.- They're likely the handyman type, day jobbers, the helper (i.e., not a decision maker in the company) or the like... the pros are having the materials delivered to the job as they value their time (and rest assured, if they don't value/respect their own time, they're not likely to value/respect others' time either).  

It gives advantage - instead of paying 13K for contracting you just buy excavator time for a day (600 dollars), have one-two low-paid helpers (150-300 bucks) and buy a standard set of materials (600-900).

My plan is to buy a single-family home, live upstairs and have a mortgage helper in the basement, I would be 100% percent responsible for the purchase.

Until recently she has been living at home with day and night helpers taking care of her, but she has taken a turn for the worse and the doctors are saying there is no way she can return home now.