@Jay Hinrichs  Not to shift the topic from rent control/ affordable housing to homelessness, but I lived in SoCal for three years and after growing up on the east coast the homelessness was a bit of an adjustment.

Sadly I am just now seeing that degrees won't lead to financial security, which is why I am shifting gears into entrepreneurship.I am in beautiful San Marcos, Texas, the area is booming and would like to take advantage of real estate opportunities.

We try to shift these expenses to the tenants via charges to their security deposits.

You guys make my graveyard shift SOOOO ENJOYABLE!

Each interior plates is connected with a steel cord to an exterior plate, and it keeps the wall from shifting/bowing any further. 

The Buhl makes 30k a month on their rentals there is 1 person running it but three different shifts.

As Brian Hoyt pointed out, without a pre-bate, sales/consumption tax are extremely regressive.One criticism of it is that it shifts the burden to the middle class, because the poor pay no or very little tax (The very poor would actual come out ahead).

While Craig's List appears to be the go to site in the US, as @Kyle J. pointed out, the best place to advertise depends on your market.Here, and in may other parts of Canada, Kijiji has far more traction than Criag's List ... though that may shift now with Kijiji's new policy on charging for more than X for rent ads and the amounts they are proposing to charge.

There will usually be extra beds, make-shift closets, lots of mess/clothes etc.I agree with Jon Holdman - I wouldn't worry about it.

I just want to point out, you shifted gears after the first question.