Not looking for specifics or to steal your "secret sauce".

I don't see a huge problem with it being that it is for work completed and it isn't an ongoing gift that implies he's getting a gift for hitting a value.Once, I was at a house in the country, and this guy made BBQ sauce, and he gave me a gallon jar of it.  

@Joseph Ball what would we ever do without the gurus telling us that we can't do it without them and their secret sauce?

If you do go the paid route, just make sure it's not some guru who's claiming to know everything and have a secret sauce, make sure it's someone who's actually also an active investor and who's values align with your own.Hope this helps! 

That's the secret sauce. 

A friend once put granite in a flip and the same day it was installed, she spilled some red sauce from Mexican takeout on it and it left a horrible stain.

Appetizer of mussels in red sauce and main course of Chicken Sicilian.  

Sounds like you've figured out the magic sauce to make it in Cook County (Cook County frightens and confuses me!).

Secret sauce, please!

(Sometimes more, sometimes less.)There's no "secret sauce" to what I do, I've just laid it all out here right on the prior post.