In general it seems like folks are ready to travel and do normal things. 

Travel Nurse?

Both of the places you mention are dependent on oil and cruise lines as well as travel and hospitality.

The Bad: Tenant spent two years traveling sporadically for work and had relatives move in as roommates without asking me.

It's difficult to travel south (I'm currently living on the central coast) to look at property.  

I'm a bit of a nomad; living in a van and traveling for most of the past few years.

A working actor often travels a lot so shorter term arrangements when she does so are possible. 

The other two I travel between the states and Europe.

Let that grow for a few years in the background as you start your path to learning.As far as building credit, just have mom add you as a authorized user for her card, which would issue a card in your name, and let her just shred it or something if she's concerned about usage... what will really matter is you get some credit history that matches her use of the card... caveat here is only if she's good at paying things off... if she has bad credit habits, you'll just inherit that... but yeah, then once you're at 18, you'll have 2 years of credit history that hopefully is good, and you can leverage that towards your first loan with much more favorable terms than your average 18 year old.Recommended reads...Set for Life by Scott TrenchDrink from the fountain of information that is Investopedia.comAnd of course... keep up here on BP.

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