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How to look and act professional as a new local contractor when you can barely afford the boots you're wearing. You don't need money to be a successful business owner, it helps get the ball rolling faster, but you don't "need" it. 
If you ask me, even if you had the money to start up, I would pretend you don't. As a new business, you're most important goal should be to build report with clientele. Get your face out there and build relationships, especially as a person they are going to allow in their home. You want people to like you, trust you, to talk about you to friend because they want to help you succeed. They don't want someone trying to be someone they aren't because you're trying to impress someone, it comes off fake and actually hurts the business. 
Think about it from the customers point of view, in fact, think about the customers point of view everytime you are about to go on a new job and ask yourself...
"If I hired someone to do____,what's the best impression I can give?"