If three days go by and they don't respond, you should be ready for the worst. 2) If you can get ahold of them, but there is "paperwork" that is causing delays for more than a week, I'd get on a plane, and go visit them.

If you pick a martlet a three hour plane ride away it will be hard for you to learn that market well enough to make a decision. 

Because they hate their job, they want to parachute out before the plane has even cleared the runway.

Hop on plane, walk the props with your GC.

But this is why I've been telling you to focus on the cost vs return - imagine someone wanted to give you $13K (lottery, gift, whatever), but you had to buy a $1000 plane ticket to go pick it up.

It's still OOS but a short plane ride away. 

I asked him what else he did and he said he had been hired to go to central America and kidnap white collar criminals who stole from their business or partners.. they would grab em put them on a private plane and have the arrested once they landed in the USA..

YOU may not need a 'jump partner', who will push you out of the plane when you start bringing up the myth's and lies to why you might fail at this project. 

Yet, people infer Dave Ramsey is some financial demi-God for preaching common sense, and then transfer this over to things so vastly removed such as Real Estate Investing that it's like saying since I am good at driving my car they should let me drive the jet plane I am taking to texas, it's all driving right. 

I wouldn’t mind one of those large ones in the south end airpark so I could lease for multiple planes, then squeeze my future singe engine piston in there.