Rags to Riches – San Andreas Edition

Overview

In this guide, I will be showing you how to turn a measly sum of money into a fortune, no strings attached.

Introduction

Before we proceed any further, the manner in which you get your starter money doesn’t matter.

In that case, if you have a sum of money within the 40 to 50k ballpark (you could have ANY sum for that matter, however, a sum within said ballpark will make this much,MUCH more easy), you can skip right to the second step of the guide.

The first section of the guide is intended for people who have started the game fresh.

Without further ado, let’s just jump into it;

1 – The Setup

There are quite a few ways to get money in GTA: SA..

..from completing odd jobs such as:

• Firefighter missions

• Vigilante missions

• Paramedic missions

• Taxi missions

..to doing burglary missions, courier missions, trucking missions or simply playing the story missions.

However, for this application, we are going to go with the Firefighter missions since they are quite easy to complete.

Right off the bat, you’ll want to go to this area of the map in order to get a firetruck (pictured below).

Once you have successfully obtained the firetruck, you should head to the Los Santos freeway located on the east side of the map (pictured below).

Having arrived on the freeway, start completing the firetruck missions.

After you successfully finished the firetruck missions and obtained the measly sum of 40 something thousand, you’ll want to head to this safe house (pictured below) and purchase it, in order to be able to use it as a save point for the second part of the guide.

There are two main reasons as to why you’d want to acquire this specific safe house;

For one, it’s one of the cheapest safe houses you can buy early in the game.

And second, it is very strategically placed to our next point of interest..

2 – The Getup

Once you have successfully acquire the safe house, you’ll want to go in and save.

After saving, you’ll want to head to this location on the map (pictured below) where you will find a betting shop.

Head right in and use any of the betting machines inside.

Now, you could bet all your money on any of the horses and hope for the best. However, for the purposes of this application, you’ll always want to bet on the last horse.

Why?

Because that is what’s going to get you the most amount of money (as pictured below).

Once you put all your money on the last horse, sit back and hope for the best..

..fingers crossed.

3 – The Backup

Now, there are two possible scenarios;

a. You won the bet;

In which case you’ll want to head back to the safe house and save.

Always remember to save your game after having won a bet by using this method, as winning a bet like that back to back is highly unlikely and you’ll probably end up losing all the money you just got.

b. You lost the bet;

In which case you’ll simply have to reload the save and try again until you win.

A thing you can do to cut down on time is the following;

If the horse you bet on is too far behind from the rest and you honestly think there’s no way he’ll be able to catch up, reload the save and try again.

Now that you’re all set..

..go get the money.

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Shoutout to https://www.youtube.com/user/Joshimuz for inspiring me to make this guide.

Thanks for reading.

..and remember to sit down, relax, and enjoy the spoils of an honest day’s work.