What they are looking for is promise-breakers, IE once in a while someone calls me to buy their third "primary residence" in a year, always with some "excuse" like "the neighbors smell when they cook" for why they - yet again - can't fulfill their 1 year promise.

Quote from @Philip Cook: Hi Steph.

It's ridiculous.Again, just like Al Gore and his scientists were ridiculous when they said that the earth was going to cook in... 

We use gas for cooking and heating and water from the creek for everything but drinking.

Quote from @Dillon Cook: That's a neat idea, but how frequently do you do that? 

:-)btw: I'm also in the chicago area - far south suburbs (mostly will and kankakee counties, with some early souther cook county purchases).

I was a fruit and vegetable farmer for 20 years and decided to partner up with a friend of mine and start a construction company.

In many other parts of the world, that would be called "cooking the books".5.  

Also, Puget Sound weather means vegetation grows like crazy relative to dryer climates like SD, for example.

But have the ability to travel a lot, cook a lot, and work for myself.So all in all, if you are close to being done with school, finish it because you really don't know what you will want to do when you are 30 or 40 or 50.