Paid online surveys (not a good use of time)Use Honey or Ebates or other discount portals for Amazon/eBay or other internet purchases to save a few %Certain credit cards provide 5x bonuses (Chase Freedom has rotating categories) and Chase Business cards are good for auto-pay things like internet with extra bonus categoriesMake a Ghetto Latte at Starbucks and other funCharging up your electronics/phones/Gameboys at work before you leave for the weekendI never paid for Tinder plus or extra coffee beans on When Coffee Meets Bagel 

They make a product and then find people to purchase or then survey the people and create a product to fit their needs.

Does that include the studies, surveying, etc?

Appraisal, survey, title, ect...http://www.houstonhotdeals.com/Rltr1.htm

This same department has cited us for $250 lawn care for an abandoned property next door to another rental we own & again we go in to explain it with a survey & again we have to go to housing court clerk to straighten it out.In another town we have been inspected & cited mid-winter for gutters damaged by ice yet the home across the road has had a torn tarp with multiple (torn shredded) layers on its roof for 5 years.

Business Model……………………………………………… 138The Inspection Survey………………………………………………… 139H.I.

I myself have run into enough problems that I always get a survey done now.  

Why would someone send 17k on a 60k mortgage to the supposed lender.When I am working on a commercial loan for a client, I typically will ask for a deposit  to cover 3rd party fees (appraisal, Phase 1, survey, lender legal, etc.). 

I had a survey done and it revealed that the prior owners didn't deed back all of the property to Countrywide.

I've read census survey info before, but this one is startling.