Guy charged me 16k to rip me off In every way possible.. leading me on with 6%20year sba buy out.. no payments for a year 13.5% ..  telling me what a great job and how hard he worked...paid off million dollar home 
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I had maybe 50-100 fraudulent credit card charges at my retail computer store over 10 years.

In that case, it's getting close to gambling instead of investing.I'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news here and I'm wishing you all the best! 

I feel as if this investment might be a gamble with this open permit, considering it most likely has to pass inspections before the permit is closed.

If unaffordable (compared to median income) it is a foolish gamble and a bad decision financially. people call this a lifestyle choice.If you want to spend on the family, You may want to buy a second home with a nice garden for 100-200k in the middle of nowhere for week ends.

I myself have paid for plenty of that, but for the sake of this post lets disregard them, just as we would disregard all of the slum landlords or fraudulent real estate investors out there.To start, it seems when anyone asks about a seminar or person promoting one, the default answer is "you can find everything you need to know by reading it here."

Of course, you can also just gamble and go with the cheapest PMC, but you'll usually get exactly what you pay for.

So as far as the percentage to compensate them - that really depends on who is doing what and for how long. 20% of a deal that will only get $10k of profit at the end isn’t very attractive - but that’s the gamble you take with equity.

And if I were a betting man (I'm not), I'd gamble that you probably have a pretty good recommendation for just such a mentor group 😛

I was not fraudulent nor did I scam her in anyway.