And problems will start – just depends on if your friendships can handle it.1.Call an attorney.

Alternately, you can forego trying to collect from him and consider that the cost of maintaining the friendship.

Friendships aren't interviewed for, and neither should mentoring relationships...

How will it effect your friendship if you have to upbraid the guy some day, or dock his pay for a job done poorly?

This caused close to 6months of seperation of our friendship which I thought would never happen.

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Feel the emotion of true friendship.

Somewhere along the journey the mentor sees potential, synergies and/or the ability to profit and both parties form a mutually beneficial friendship.

It talks about how people have become more and more isolated from each other because of a variety of reasons, including (a) women going to work, which has meant fewer social evenings with friends, (b) people moving to other cities for jobs, which has resulted in breaks in friendships, (c) less church attendance, which has removed some of the social contacts that people used to have regularly.The net result of all this is that people seem to be seeking material substitutes for the social void in their lives.

I personally have always found that if you help friends out it usually ends up bad so i personally would not let a real estate transaction get in the way or possibility of it getting in the way ruin the friendship.