First find out what your lender wants them to be, and then talk to your insurance person about it.I have seen, rocks piled up, books piled up, scraps of lumber piled up,  car scissor jacks, car bottle jacks, screw jacks...under there.If you go under watch for scorpions.Good Luck!

Some have had trouble taking off if they don’t have scissors, knife or fingernail clipper.

Hi all,We are in search of scissor lift for our company.

Hi Rick,I've seen some DIY leveling that involved setting the house on car scissor jacks, cinder blocks, wooden roofing shingle shims on top of stacked lumber, tree stumps and rock piles. 

If you can use scissors, a razor  knife and a tape measure without needing a trip to the hospital, you'll do fine on your  own.

You can use a scissor truss.

Carpet squares are easy to install just have straight edge, tape measure and a good pair of scissors.

"Sliding" can also be taken care of with some rubberish linears - something you can get for a few bucks at Wally World and can install with a pair of scissors in <15 minutes. 

As for your debt being like a domesticated lion, I prefer the analogy that debt is like a pair of scissors -- yup, it's possible to kill yourself with them, but if use them intelligently, you'll find them to be very useful with very little risk.Unfortunately, we learn in Kindergarten not to run with scissors...but we don't learn about the responsible use of debt/leverage in school.  

Or scissors... whatever works best