Great advice, Thomas.If folks would brown bag their lunch, brew their own coffee and avoid car payments, they'd be miles closer to achieving their goals.Thanks also for the book recommendation.

If you don't come to the island with reservations already made, you're sleeping in your car (which the sheriff will ticket you for, if he catches you.)

However, it's also illegal to turn lanes in a car without using a turn signal, yet most people do it and rarely get pulled over for it.  

Swedish values are everywhere in this store, they also want you to embrace their culture:As soon as you pull in there are electrical charging stations for all electric cars (even though nobody in America drives them yet).  

I have an '60s house that has a two 1-car garage doors that I would like to convert to one 2-car garage door.

There's no driveway (2 car approx. 30 feet to road.Thanks in advance!

the training as an aside.. private money lenders are NOT looking for newbies generally and are not sitting at home waiting for a guru to call and say they have a new student.you can simply talk to your local HML which is who you would use anyway if you need capital.as for learning the business there are a myrid of ways to do that.you can go to e bay and buy any and all guru course and videos for pennies... spend a few hundred on those and sift through the information.there is just so much hype that people can go from not knowing anything about real estate to be financially independent in a few short months.. and folks simply don't know what they don't know this is a long game a very long game.. and depending on were your living and working it can be very very difficult without substantial cash already.. areas of the North east and mid west you can deal in SFR's like used cars because they sell for that. if your west coast based.. much tougher

The house is a 3/2 with a unattached 2 car garage, which sits a little lower than the house.

As a business experiment, I recently rented out a car I bought ( $3500 all in ) with a service like airbnb for cars.

I've got a massive, 3,400 square foot house that is right next door to a car wash, corner store, and a newly redeveloped highway (construction almost complete).It's got 2 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, laundry room, and extra room (used to be single garage).