I think what you call this is winner winner chicken dinner!

@Coleman Nelson  If you remember from the dinner I said I bought a house for $7,000 that in hindsight I shouldn't have have bought it for $0.

we are going to dinner tonight and i am leaving the phone in the car. 

The excitement of the deal will have to be the payoff, maybe a nice dinner with partners to celebrate that, but I cannot lose sight of long term goals. 

Maybe take your mate to dinner.

And if you ever close a deal with a broker, by all means, take them out to a nice dinner at the best restaurant in town to show your appreciation, even if they were the seller's broker and they got a nice commission check in the deal.  

If the #s work, take a drive by, have lunch or dinner at Mizner park, enjoy.

You don't want to have a thanksgiving dinner where the family explodes about business. 

I don't think I have ever met family or friends of another I'd deal with as some way to vet them and I have never taken some young'n to any family dinner, that's just not business like.Now, you said "elderly", I see you're a young guy in your avatar, your perception of his age may be different than mine, elderly to me is in his 80s, not 60s.

I'd say run away as fast as you can if the seller will let you.Now, if the seller is your brother-in-law the worse thing is you may not get to go to the family thanksgiving dinner.