Real estate investing got me my freedom, I have a 6 year old and I love the fact that I get to be home for dinner every night - it is by far the best part of this work. 

I specifically said C/D inner city Memphis  duplex's not other areas..

I wanted to research the area more, but my wife called me away from my office for dinner.  

They often stay weekends at our Lakehouse as we plan more projects & our business dinners during the year are a blast.

The renter replied that they weren’t having a party, but rather a dinner gathering.

They will start going out to lunch, happy hour, dinner and spending will increase across the board, getting others back to work in the process. 

They sold the land for a mix of property/cash making part of the sale eligible for a 1031 exchange.BUT, they weren't alerted to this fact until a chance conversation over dinner with a VP of Tax friend of theirs.

They served chicken dinners for fifty cents at long “family-style” tables.

He might want it to remain raw land that never gets touched.Probably back in the day the defunct developer penciled in cheaper labor and construction costs to try and make lower density work and even back then found out it wasn't feasible.Probably the cheapest thing you might could do is offer to take the guy to dinner on you and see where he is coming from, show empathy, and see if there is a WIN-WIN in there somewhere.If not sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze at all ever or just ( that particular moment in time ).You do not want to obligate yourself to thin deals.

But I dont even like it when he pays for dinner, so I would never do this.