Make it something that you can repeat annually like a Chili cook off, or Holiday decorating contest. 

Be around friends and receive nice medical care.(4) Become homeless and live under an overpass, Cooking roadkill over an open fire.

Actually it is fermenting vegetables.

You're cooking the books.

HOWEVER, my wife went downstairs to begin cleaning the property and take pictures of the evidence of smoking...and instead finds evidence that these guys were cooking METH. 

Cooking anything they shouldn't be?

They had been staying at a Holiday Inn Express, but the lack of cooking facilities were a disappointment to them. 

Cook/Will counties in Illinois of some of the highest property tax rates in the country, the property taxes are usually the biggest thing that make most deals really bad that I've analyzed.

Thanks, Frankhttp://chicagoeviction.com/2011/08/cook-county-ill...

@Chip Cook, formal actions are to move on and consider it the cost of tuition.Bruce mentioned somethings to do, but at the end of the day, the money is 99% chance gone for good, or going to cost you just as much to try to recover.