I got a check a few years later, and I took everyone at my office for drinks and dinner that night.

Changed the locks and left and came home and started cooking Thanksgiving dinner.  

Take the prospective lender to lunch or dinner on three separate occasions to satisfy the SEC.

I know nothing about this type of investing but I will tell you about circa 2011 I had the privilege of having dinner with a very well known popular investing financial expert and this person said that the rich invest in timber. 

After closing yesterday, we took him and my mother in law out for a very nice celebration dinner and to announce that we were sending them on a cruise, but they aren't accepting...  

The home also has 3 small studio apartments where the 'help' pay to live-in.They bus the 'clients' to a daily workshop so her days are free & they only need to prepare breakfasts & dinners & the low paid 'help' take care of the bathing cleaning etc.A great system if you can handle that type of scenario.

Considering it is around dinner time.

I do not know your family dynamic, but I would hate to see the Thanksgiving Dinner after getting a lawyer involved.Who knows, maybe he wants to buy the house, or just wants to be consulted.Just my opinion.

But that was the best thing that happened to me personally because it forced me into heavy research and to see Real Estate for what it was becoming and was PROBABLY going to be (IE: doing the prep work in the kitchen before cooking a meal) as opposed to what it was (IE: a delicious dinner already cooked and ready to eat).Being forced out of our preferred market is what put us on our current multi unit adventure.  

When he did send it over it wasn't even an E-Sign or DocuSign......I was out having dinner with friends and literally had to go to a Kinkos, print out a bunch of pages.....sign them......and then re-scan them back to him.