This personal investment could come through a friendship ("I like you and want you to succeed"), through a common business enterprise ("We work for the same company and I want this company to succeed") or even something less tangible ("You remind me of my son and it makes me feel good to help you"). - A coach charges money -- this isn't to say that the coach doesn't have some vested interest in seeing you succeed (regardless of the continued payments), but it likely means that the coach makes some/all of his living doing this and can't afford to just give away his time. - There is absolutely nothing wrong with either model, assuming you get at least as much as you pay for (if you pay more than the value you get, then there's an issue).

Have CLEAR well thought out rules and you will hold more friendships.  

No relation between Greg and I but we all can surely build lasting friendships/partnerships.

Friendships with your competition open the door to many possibilities!

@Edward Stephens, like this nobody ever will get motivated to start something ;-)@Jeulissa Gonzales, he is partly right though.Some things to have in mind when renting by the room is that there are all kinds of different people living in the same house which could get friction (by the way, a lot of times it also leads to friendships or even entrepreneurs that start a business together like it was in my case).

You could also work out a per lot fee, but with 2.5 acre project there isn't enough lots to make it worthwile for him I would guess.You typically won't find that experienced developers will work for you by the hour, unless it was just an a friendship basis.

In addition to what Steven Hamilton II says, consider what will happen to your friendship if this deal goes bad and you can't agree on what to do.

There's no amount of money that is worth destroying a friendship or relationship, so just feel good about helping your friend.

Lets suspend our disbelief for a second and assume that Laurent knows what he's doing, and DOESN'T want to jeopardize his friendship by low-balling his friend and buying his house (and if you're saying he's already potentially jeopardizing the friendship by making a loan, well...I can't argue).  

I am looking to connect with Omaha, NE real estate investors to 1) Make friendships with people that share the same interest in real estate, 2) Learn more about the Omaha market, 3) Become a more active BiggerPockets member to help other members looking to invest in the Nebraska housing market!