I was literally in a sold-out theater on Feb 24th and then dinner.

If you have a friend who is a contractor or inspector, have them walk thru with you and offer to buy them dinner for their troubles. 

Go to a local REI meet up and offer to take some of these investors out for dinner and pick their brains  for ideas and copy what they do 

Disclaimer: my wife handles the rehabs, so my estimates are suspect :)   I owe both you and Rachel dinner.

With that being said, I would love to sit down and have dinner with some successful multi unit investors in my area.  

There is even a blog of the analysis being done available here:@Danny Duran and @Chris Clothier - we were talking this over dinner that night in SF.http://yorkandfig.com/Omi

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.