I have even seen divorce, gambling and drug addiction destroy 20 year businesses. 

Anderson has huge homeless and drug addicted populations.

Listen, I'm not looking for your opinion on drug addicts, either your opinion on what you THINK the neighbors will think or feel about  a Sober Living house being in their neighborhood.  

My son is battling addiction which is where I discovered what a sober living home is.

If you're particularly sensitive to it, I don't see any point in making yourself miserable over it.The other thing about smokers is that apart from a very rare few that are somehow able to maintain a habit of only a couple a day without it gradually becoming more, most of us are addicted to it to varying degrees.

(I am assuming that you don't have direct experience with addiction and recovery, or have experience as a therapist.)You will not be welcome as a sober home operator, yourself.

Something screwy in there and your new partner could be their crazy ex or drug-addicted kid down the road.  

The left is catering to addicts, criminals and migrants. 

Not because I think he deserves it, but because I'd imagine based on the fact that he needed a place to sleep for his buddy that he is, or at the very least, his buddies are, drug addicts.

In their "perfect world", they meet with the homeowner, give a verbal bid, shake on it, get paid 1/2 upfront, get to work when they have time, walk the property with the owner when done, to get paid in full the same day.You go outside any part of their preference and you better have a good connection to them to get them to agree.Most OOS investors can't find these contractors, or piss them off when they do find them by trying to get them to act like a big company and do a pretty bid for free, sign a contract with performance penalties, etc..What OOS investors can find are the desperate contractors with addiction problems, that will do whatever you want so they can get that 50% upfront to pay their past due bills and feed their addictionGood luck getting these types to stick to a schedule - they often turn a 3 week job into 3 months and counting when you finally fire them.