Because if we're, I'm struggling to understand this thinking.I don't care whether this $100 is for state tax preparation (which, by the way, would be a very low cost and should be higher), for taking a business partner to dinner, or for anything else.

Invite him to dinner, talk to him honestly, and see what happens.

@Joseph Abbott You have to start first, you start off by yourself renovation properties, helping homeowners, making new friends, meeting powerful people in the city.A year goes by, your adding people to your business to do work, now you have a team, saving money up, paying off debt, your business name is known a little in the area, you bought a few homes for cash flow, you met investors that can fund your ideas, your taking people out for dinner, your at the the REI groups branding your company3 years in, Now people know you around the city, showing them you do good work, you paid off your debt, saved up some money for starting  a Real Estate Development Company, you met city officials and political people within the city, you get in the news papers, your active the in community, you have a full team that takes care of your contracting company, your making money from houses and the construction company, now you are working on developing blocks, doing big projects in the city and a real estate investor.Now this can take less than 3 years but may take 5 years or more I don't know but what I am saying is with a plan to start, and starting TODAY as a carpenter gets you closer to your goals of being a developer and rebuilding neighborhoods. 

Nothing ruins a Thanksgiving dinner quite like a nice work discussion!

Working with family always adds a little something because you will have to have dinner with them even if things go bad.  

Dec 3 Winnebago Investor Network (WIN) Dinner Meetup Last post by Craig Wilcox, about 2 hours ago 6075 E Riverside Blvd Rockford, Illinois 61114 Mon Dec 3 at 06:00PM

As a lender I am of course a different sort of housing provider, but generally the folks that don't want to fill out an application or don't want you to see their credit, there is a very good reason, and it's best just to pass until they stop hiding information, since the overwhelming majority have bigger issues than not knowing the difference between dinner and a pet.The pet stuff is a "202" level issue, they need to complete the "101" coursework first, to verify they are even qualified to have the "202" conversation. 

Then I had dinner with someone I met at an re meeting.

No matter how clean you are, you’re tracking dust around, eating dinners out of a microwave and toaster in the basement, etc.

Often times they do it for fun, and for bragging rights at the dinner table.