You can actually increase your underground water table, but that is a whole post on how dry areas can make their own water. 

I wanted to stock it with nice to haves like laundry detergent, drying sheets, shampoo, body wash, conditioner, scent oils for a diffuser etc.

those 3000 jobs would get coffee and need dry cleaners and cars repaired etc. 

Did these students come in dry or have experience, money to help them through the program, etc?

By the most important thing (if that's what you're doing) is to have a really good operator who knows the laws, has experience and is above board so they won't leave you high and dry. 

When foreclosures dried up, we went after short sales and when those dried up we started to focus on properties with mold or foundation issues and learned how to fix those and when that started to become too difficult and the rehab was not worth it anymore I had to pivot again and we buy properties in good shape that fell through with another buyer.

Effectively a 'Firestorm' is a dry hurricane that rains fire, with nearly indefensible circumstances, just like the catastrophic flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes and other disasters they have and will intensify in severity and rapidity.Beyond directly impacted property owners, investors, insurers and businesses, the downhill effects of the SoCal fires on the immediate and surrounding areas are astronomical and still somewhat incomprehensible.

Kiln dry and plane worth $96,000.  

The wrong chemistry, well, see what happens if you put a few drops of brake fluid into dry pool chlorine (actually, do not do this!).

Turns out, the previous owner did take many steps to mitigate the moisture damage and the home was very dry and mold free when we acquired it.