If you are mechanically minded, don't mind getting your hands dirty and have a working relationship with a maintenance organisation, then buy your own plane to do the training in.
I did most of my training in my own planes and my CPL has cost me only a few thousand dollars. Instead of throwing money at the flying schools, throw it towards your own planes. At least you will have something to show instead of just a piece of paper.
Once you become qualified, then you can write off the costs of aircraft ownership if its making a loss.
Then once you have got the bug of owning aircraft and want more, you then need to buy a maintenance org to service them all!
