If you have alternatives I would be happy to look them up as well!

Or, find an alternative way to fund to projects through a personal loan or store cc if you can pay it off before accruing interest.

If the lender could not obtain actual service, they would need to pursue (likely after court approval), alternate service such as posting.

@Chauncy GrayIn order to establish a self-directed IRA first you need to find a custodian allowing alternative investments.

It's one thing to use a calculator and another to build one.On that note, accounting for your alternative (renting out a 1-br apt) in these projections would give you a truer ROI.

They normally cashflow well, are easy to manage, and thus are more passive than most of the alternatives.

This strongly emphasizes goal setting, and measuring net worth, and I have found that habit to be unbelievably helpful. 

Your alternative is to rent a room to someone you don’t know.

It's your responsibility to provide alternate window AC units or portable AC units for tenant to use in the meantime until the repair is complete.

And of course you've mentioned here that everyone else who rents from you thinks that this electrician-of-obviously-questionable-competence is God's gift to alternating current.A does not equal B does not equal C here.The windows...you can't rent a house with busted windows.