Hey @Dan H. as someone who is experienced, you know not to let emotion or FOMO hinder your judgement.

When you take all five together they should paint a picture, but I also mentioned your gut is important (not your emotions).

Yes it does play on the emotions and it worked.

Having lived in Southern California my whole life, I live in a bubble and am not aware of the flipping market outside of my backyard.

Then, she purchased a house in Victorville California (don't know the price), but at the same time she purchased a $550,000 house in Las Vegas and I stopped communicating with her back in about 2006 or 2007 and don't know how she did through the 2008 bubble and COVID probably did a lot of damage to her assets since she rented to only students from Japan.This girl was a strange duck because I saw her walking down the street one day and asked he if she wanted a ride.

You may want to remove yourself from the situation since you are emotional about the situation.

So as a result of my “asset protection” procedures, the end result was that instead of being sued personally and having to spend the time, money and emotional stress of both defending my self AND suing the insurance companies and condo association, the plaintiffs accepted an ASSIGNMENT of proceeds and signed a form releasing me and my LLC from liability in exchange for the right to go after the insurance companies themselves. 

There’s no room for emotion in investing—if you catch yourself getting eager or excited, take a step back.  

That said, keep your emotions out of it and simply respond to his offer with a VERY polite "thank you so much and I'd love to sign this for you today, but there were a few terms we discussed that I think may have been overlooked....those are XXXX".

Don’t let emotions get in the way of your goal, which is to get your EM back or pivot to another opportunity. 2.