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Continuing on today with our radical housing series, today is idea number four.

The idea is this, is there a way that you can get your housing to be provided for you by your employer in some form or another.

Of course there are many ways that this can be done, many different permutations of this idea.

But it's a powerful way for you to dramatically lower your living expenses.

It's a very efficient way with regard to tax efficiency and expense efficiency for you to provide a basic need for yourself

and it can provide a foundation for you to grow your finances.

Let's start with some obvious examples to kindle your creative

thinking. One example would be something like the military. One of the great benefits of joining

a military organization is that your basic living needs are provided for you

as part of your contract. If you were to join your country's military, they'll provide for you

housing, they'll provide for you clothing, they'll provide for you housing they'll provide for you clothing they'll provide for you

food they'll provide for you medical care and they'll provide all these things for you as part of your contract.

Now of course you also in response commit your entire life and literally your life.

But you do get a good deal. So yes, your wages might not be the biggest wages as compared to other types of wages, but when you run the math on $30,000 wages with all of your expenses provided for you as compared to $50,000, but you're

responsible for all of your expenses. You have a really need opportunity. But the military is not

the only way this can happen. There are some jobs where you wind up with your housing as provided for you as part of your job.

I've met a guy in a, I was in a cigar shop years ago. I always enjoy hanging out in cigar shops. I meet so

many interesting people. I was in a cigar shop and I start talking with this guy.

And there are certain types of people that if you go in on a middle of a weekday at around

11 a.m. 10.30 a.m. into a cigar shop. The type of person that's there is either going

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