But if you're thinking about buying stock in a big food processing company tomorrow, wouldn't it be good for you to know if their supply chain management team works effectively to ensure that the chickens delivered to their facilities are disease-free, or if that part of the company is so incompetent that a salmonella outbreak and massive chicken recall at some point in the near future is unavoidable?

@Matt Lockwood,From the mortgage perspective, which is what I know...Get on payroll as a salaried W2 employee for the foreman job, or it's a 1-2 tax year wait until you can get in the game yourself as an REI because of mortgage guidelines.Write off as much depreciation as possible (as much as your CPA says you can lawfully write off), but no meals and entertainment (unless your CPA says it's unlawful not to write it off). 

One of the units has a “chain” ladder attached to the inside floor of the second floor bedroom.

The largest chain of grocery stores in the area just pulled out of 38127.

I'm very financially secure with ~135k in total assets, no debts of any kind, and very cheap monthly bills ($350 rent, company pays for most meals, 100% free insurance, and free car/gas/insurance).

Big chain stores in the area (Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Barnes and Noble etc.)4.

before you even get this far you need to know why you're doing this.. if it is for quick money, you're going to be out of the game before you even get started. a few people get lucky and get a meal ticket quickly, but it takes perseverance to keep going. show a mentor that you're hungry for information and they'll keep feeding you all you can take.thoughts?

I have bump keys for kwikset and schlage... they're both pretty easy. i hear that the kwikset smart keys cannot be bumped, but i've never tried it.Like everyone else said though, a criminal is still going to kick open the door or break a window, they don't care if they do damage or not.As for the legality... i doubt most police would see the significance of it if it was on your key chain. if you are breaking in and get caught they might treat it as a locksmith tool... and the laws on those vary state to state

Mileage is typically expensed at $0.55/mile (or whatever the IRS mileage rate is now), meals you can expense 50% of the cost, repairs you can expense up to $25K assuming you make less than $100K.

There are a few chain hotels that are reasonable on Atlantic avenue and I think there is a Hyatt that is a block or two off of Atlantic.Also plenty of good beach front hotels in Ft.