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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

Or, you could buy property of your own (if you have the business funding, of course) becoming a property manager or landlord, renting out the space to tenants, maintaining the property and serving as their point of contact for any potential issues.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

My mom cut coupons and sewed her own clothes and mine, as well. When they got married, they bought a duplex so that the rent money from the tenant in the upstairs apartment would pay the mortgage. My dad was a blue-collar worker – a machine operator on the railroad who sometimes got laid off for periods of time in the winter.