1)At the beginning I looked for a treasure. You can find some video guide on YT, it consist of 3 artifacts. It took me about 3 hours in game? You will gain 2 500!! 2)Then I highly recommended to buy pigs (as much as you can), feed them properly. Load them into the car and go to shopping place. When you get to this place, kill them and skin. I get about 1400!! for 2 pigs. 3) Make cheeses and add to them eggs and special ingrediens which you can find in general store, increase price I think abou 20 dollars? Thats my experience, you will have enough money to do harvesting, buying cars, cows..... within a few days