I am super fast to respond as know for investments it's critical but I also know lots of decade old top producers who do not answer the phone after dinner time and are great negotiators/marketing but definitely not fast to respond they tend to do better with seller clients vs other faster agents who may be better for buyers. 

It was dinner table conversation for like a year as it dragged on.When I told my Dad that I was staring to invest in real estate, I thought he would say 'that's a terrible idea!'

Enjoy your free lunches and reinvest your 2/day savings into your dinner budget.

My parents were at dinner every night, every sporting event, and every Sunday was family quality time. 

I’m barely an investor (under contract on a 6-unit) but for me I can pop on this site while cooking dinner or waiting for my kids to get ready and gather a bit of RE knowledge, lay ground work for networking, etc.There is something to be said for that FB or Instagram mentality where you are working for likes & notoriety.

I do this by house hacking, which I admittedly would have never done without my girlfriend casually telling me about BP at dinner one night about a year ago.

My fiancee isn't too happy being taken out to dinner in the work van but I tell her its the "Money Maker" LoL.

I have a great life with my wife and kids and I don't need to spend a ton of money to have fun with them.If you're talking about investing the money you would normally put into your 401k into real estate and then earning cash flow now, that's different than just spending the money foolishly on new cars, expensive dinners, etc.

Take him to dinner at a place where you can sit down with a yellow pad and write out your investment goals together.

We drive modest cars because they get us from A to B and driving luxury vehicles brings us no joy, but we like going on vacation from time to time and going out for drinks and nice dinners occasionally.