Personally for me my relations with my bud matter more than the money and I won't like to destroy personal relations at monetary cost.

The process will offer peace of mind even if no major monetary pay off.

I am hoping giving them some time + a lesser monetary value will help them work with me.

I think you may be right, that if I'm doing a lot of marketing, I may well come across too many deals--or at least, deals that I'm not eager to do myself but which may still have monetary value to others. 

ex. monetary fine.Terry

I don't understand what I am getting for my purchase of equity shares other than:1) no investor fees2) early access to loan offerings3) invites to shareholder events4) Groundfloor schwagSo are they wanted me to lend them money without offering any monetary return?

While it's a modest monetary cushion, it's been great practice for landlord-ing and VRBO-ing one day.Thanks again for taking the time to respond to my inquiry and share your two cents with a newbie.

@David Flores in my opinion if your goal is to sell any property at 50% of market value just work backwards from there on how much you would like to make. in your example of this property lets say you wanted to make $5,000. that property would have to retail at $34,000 in order for you to sell it at 50%($17,000) pay the $10,000 in liens and pay the owner $2,000I think everyone is going to be different on what they think their time is worth so if your happy putting up $12,000 for liens and purchase to make $3,000(25%ROI) because the market value is $30,000 then do it at the end of the day you have hungry new investors willing to make a $1,000 and get some education then you have pros that won't do a deal for less than $10,000. you just have to decide what your willing to accept both in monetary and education because both are currencies in the investing world@Brandy Horkey I second what you've said, I know in Florida that the county appraised value is strictly for tax purposes and not what the actually market value for a property is.

If the cost of the inexpensive car is less than the taxes you expect to pay on the 179 recapture, then (solely from a monetary perspective) it may be better to pursue the inexpensive car for personal purposes route.

It is a disaster in our monetary policy where the Government prints $$$.8- Inflation: What does that mean?