If my core competency is out of season, I’m perfectly happy managing the hell out of the properties I have left, and playing golf when the gift of spare time comes around.Since I’m not worried about raising money for my next fund, I’m free to “tell it like it is” (which I’d do regardless), and make unpopular decisions that bolster our chances of success, knowing full well that after issuing difficult news our investors would be lighting up forums on LFI, 506 group, and BP.  

. :)Your post is the gift that keeps giving.

In a relationship for 1 yr with a beautiful gifted psychic woman.  

So, maybe you sell a $50 massage gift certificate for $45 but pay the massage business $40 for it and make $5 in the middle.

If the free rent were considered a gift or was taxable that could be a complication.2.

You might get a gift of seller concession, but putting money into the deal is pretty important to most lenders.

This was always said to me and I consider a gift because not most people have great social skill especially at 17.

I could get a family gift for $50k but that doesn't make much a dent in the payment to lower DTI.

Makes no sense....When I was a GC, of course I got huge discounts, plus gifts and game tickets, etc...but we spent sometimes hundreds of thousands of $$ per year at these suppliers.

This includes:Welcome gifts**: Local snacks or a bottle of wine.