You've got to look at your biggest expenses (rent, car, insurance, gas, food, drinking, utilities) and figure out how to cut costs and purposefully set that money aside.

Hi @Michael Clay,There are definitely different schools of thought on your approach, but even if you think it might have been a mistake, sometimes we can get away with mistakes :)  If you left a bottle of liquor for a recovering alcoholic, this could have gone south pretty quickly, but it worked out and to your benefit. 

And that’s cleaning out the old caulk, cleaning well, then wiping with rubbing alcohol before caulking again.

I am in LA, and emailed a commercial broker offering to treat him to lunch or a drink when he had time, as I saw he had recently sold some small multifamily properties in my target area, and let him know what else I had done locally as far as deals, and no response.

The kind that welders drink, with big tats on their mugs. 

I've never been to such a quick and efficient closing; I barely had time to drink the coffee they made me.

Generally though, I break it down into the "five pillars" of protecting your assets.The first pillar is avoiding unnecessary and risky activities (don't drink and drive, insurance generally won’t cover your poor decisions) and take good care of your investments(maintain your property, etc) - these simple steps will help you prevent lawsuits before they even occur.

Break some bread or have one drink as an ice breaker.

Similar to minors not being able to drink alcohol, purchase pornography or sign legal contracts. 

We have our own two bar tenders for drinks upstairs.