If something does go wrong before a big ticket cost occurs, one must have the means to pay it another way, of course. 

We've settled on offering a percentage of the total sale of the home, and movie tickets for each open house (hoping to entice them that direction).   

As to capex - routine maintenance can lower these costs, like changing oil in your car... but the big ticket items will still come up and eat years of cash flow.

We have used the $.99 per sq ft "lucky ticket" carpet from Home Depot.

Continue saving money since there were a few big-ticket items this year.

But that is basically the real estate equivalent of a winning scratch ticket. 

Also I do do live streams on my Facebook and then I'll take notes from those streams to add to my writing so its sorta a round about writing process but hey it seem to work for me.

They can basically get away with not paying until the bills reach a total of $500.  

For a criminal to shoot or rob someone at a motel would not only be risky, but would totally prevent a clean getaway, as there is pretty much always a random guests who also happens to be smoking or walking outside who can see things.

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