First starting out with GTA Online is really confusing and the level caps for buying anything don't help it, so I thought about doing my own personal guide for the grind

Humble Beginnings

Starting out you should have a few goals, a decent garage, and some free (and fast) vehicles

If you are unaware, any vehicle you purchase can be teleporter to you via a phone call to your Mechanic (available when you have a garage) or through your 'm' menu, you can also get back destroyed cars through Mors Mutual Insurance (You can insure any uninsured car through LS Customs).

But, you may lack the levels at the beginning to even get a garage, my recommendation is to fuck around with some of the popular minigames available through quick join on your phone, street races are the most popular.

For easy money, at the very beginning it would be the Daily Quests, G's Crates and stealing cars for Simeon. Some weekly missions have a modifier that allow you to gain the triple of what you usually could, also making them very lucrative, for example, Taxi Missions. You can check them from the Weekly Updates.

Every activity in this game in some way provides money and RP, continue this till you get 200k to 250k

Starting Heists

If you have the money, get a high-end Apartment, if you haven't gotten a garage yet, do that too.

By this point, you'll be doing lethal missions, if you are unaware Snacks can heal you, and Armor can replenish your armor, with them up to 50 and 10 maximum, fill them up before any mission.

Check out your options, as a start the Fleeca Job introduces you to the basics, but you won't be finding much people to take part in your heist because of the low pay, if you have a friend this would be a good time to introduce them to GTA Online

Other heists available to you aren't that worth it, do Series A Heists, which would net you around a million if it is on Hard Mode and you give yourself a 40% cut

Buy yourself an Armored Kuruma with the money you get, customize it so that it is faster, once you get it you can get fast money with Last Play - Bad Companies and Last Play - Fast Peddling, available from the Rockstar Jobs in Online tab within the Escape/Pause Menu, netting you about 30k per 7 minutes

Starting CEO Businesses

Once you get around a million, you should buy an Office to get access to the benefits being a CEO provides, the quick and easy SecuroServ VIP Jobs and Warehouse businesses that give you money as you play the game

This will also give you access to Invite-Only Sessions from Online tab in the Pause Menu.

The cheapest warehouse is the Convenience Store Lockup ($250k), buy 3 crates at a time, don't waste your time with others, sell at 9 crates to guarantee one delivery vehicle unless you like pain (avoids chaos with 2+ trucks/planes), guarantee yourself a 120k profit for 10 minutes of work. You can also run VIP Jobs in between the cooldowns, making the best use for your time.

If you have garnered enough money (roughly a million) you can get a medium warehouse (Derriere Lingerie Backlot), which fills to 42 crates and sells for $735k. Do the same for a Large Warehouse (Grind to $1.9M for West Wholesale Furniture) and that fills to 111 crates and sells for $2.2M

Again, sell when it is less full to guarantee that you get only 1 vehicle, unless you want pain

Beyond a Million

By this point you should have 1.5 to 2 million dollars, what you do is up to you, but a few options include

1. Agency Works (Don't fuck w/ Dre for 1 Million, can be done alone, 30-80k Contracts that take 10-20m)
2. Casino Heist (Easy & Profitable Heist for 800k to 1.4 Million, do with a Friend)
3. Nightclub (Passive Income, can pay itself off in 3-4 days at max popularity)

Some tips include:

• Feel free to do Heists or Missions that interest you
• Buy some fast cars, check out gtacars.net for some decent lap times
• You can also get weekly free race vehicles by checking out LS Car Meet
• You can do Heist Preps with friends by hiring them as your Associate for your Company (as CEO)
• MC (Motorcylce Club) Illegal Businesses are high-risk and take 3-4 days to pay for itself, again, deliver when they're half full
• Never buy in Paleto Bay, you'll thank me later
• Agency has a free and fast helicopter if you buy it, really good for long distance transportation
• Calling your assistant can get your impounded cars out, and can send you a helicopter than can teleport you back to your Office
• Bunker is free. Buy it.
• Don't mess with MK2 Weapons until you are sure you have enough money, sometimes they are a direct downgrade if you prefer more ammo

If you keep at it, you'll basically be ready to do anything in GTA Online in 4-5 days, with a friend it is rather fun, and for a game that people mock for being too sharkcard positive, it is actually kind of decent in terms of allowing people who don't wish to pay for extra to play as they like.

You can also see the readjusted release date, GTA 6 precisely a year and 3 days away

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Earn high-seas payouts this week in GTA Online with 2X GTA$ and RP for completing A Superyacht Life Contact Missions and secure a GTA$100,000 bonus by completing any three as part of the Weekly Challenge. Pick up a Galaxy Super Yacht — available at 40% off this week — to get started.

Back on land, drive fares in Taxi Work to bring in 3X GTA$ and pocket 2X GTA$ and RP for competing in Tiny Racers, returning to the Featured Series through May 28. Search for daily Shipwrecks across Southern San Andreas to collect enough Outfit Scraps to unlock The Frontier Outfit while also earning 2X GTA$ and RP.

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Weekly Challenges and Vehicles

• Podium Vehicle: Vapid GB200
• Prize Ride Challenge: Win a Race in the LS Car Meet Series (Resets at 8pm EDT)
• Prize Ride Vehicle: Dewbauchee Specter
• Time Trial: Storm Drain
• Premium Race: Business Trip, locked to Super
• Test Ride 1: Canis Seminole Frontier (Removed Vehicle)
• Test Ride 2: Dewbauchee JB 700 (Removed Vehicle)
• Test Ride 3: Invetero Coquette BlackFin (Removed Vehicle)

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PS5, Xbox X|S, and PC Enhanced Only

• HSW Time Trial: North Chumash to Palomino Highlands
• Premium Test Ride: Benefactor Stirling GT

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This Week's Salvage Yard Robberies Vehicles

• The Duggan Robbery: Declasse Mamba
• The Cargo Ship Robbery: Grotti Furia
• The Gangbanger Robbery: Pegassi Zorrusso

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This Week's Challenge

• Complete three A Superyacht Life Contact Missions to receive GTA$100,000

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This Week's Most Wanted Targets

• GTAWEB

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This Week's FIB Priority File

• The Black Box File

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Luxury Autos

• Annis Euros (40% Off)
• Överflöd Autarch (40% Off)

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Premium Deluxe Motorsports

• Grotti Cheetah (Removed Vehicle)
• Grotti GT500 (Removed Vehicle)
• Överflöd Entity XF (Removed Vehicle)
• Weeny Dynasty (Removed Vehicle)
• Enus Super Diamond (Removed Vehicle)

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Daily Objectives

• Thursday: Participate in the Pursuit Series

• Friday: Complete a Dispatch mission

• Saturday: Participate in the Community Series

• Sunday: Participate in a Last Team Standing

• Monday: Participate in Tiny Racers

• Tuesday: Participate in a Bike Race

• Wednesday: Play a match of Tennis

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Bonuses

3X GTA$

• Taxi Work

2X GTA$ and RP

• A Superyacht Life Contact Missions
• Shipwrecks
• Tiny Racers

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Discounts

40% Off

• Galaxy Super Yacht
• Galaxy Super Yacht Modifications
• Declasse Hotring Sabre
• BF Weevil
• Överflöd Autarch
• Gallivanter Baller ST
• Declasse Drift Yosemite
• Vapid Flash GT
• Dinka Veto Modern
• Annis Euros

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Gun Van Discounts

• Gun Van Location (Changed Daily)

Free

• Minigun
• Heavy Sniper

Free for GTA+ Members

• El Strickler Military Rifle

30% Off

• Compact EMP Launcher
• Grenades, Pipe Bombs, Tear Gas, and Body Armor

40% off for GTA+ Members

• Tactical SMG

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New Content This Week

• None

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Returning Content For This Week

• Tiny Racers

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GTA+ May Bonuses (Begins May 1st)

Useful Resources:

• GTA Weather Forecast
• Find GTA Online Crews and Groups
• Down Detector

Official Rockstar Websites:

• Rockstar Newswire
• Rockstar Support (To Open a Support Ticket)
• Bug Reporting and Suggestions
• Reporting Cheaters Offline

Thanks To:

• Tez2
• PLTytus
• GTAWeb.eu (Locations of Collectibles, Daily events, and much more)
• GTA Wiki (All Things GTA)
• GTACars.net (All Vehicle Top Speeds, Lap Times, & Vehicle Info By Broughy1322)
• GTASeriesVideos (Walkthroughs, Showcases, and more)
• RDO.GG (Tuneables Updates)
• PapaXan for putting this together