I was learning to raise chickens...not real interested until we met to talk yard birds at a coffee shop.

As would be expected, their cattle, guns and chickens are protected as well!

You know, the whole chicken or egg dilemma.

Thanks for this...I admit I was stuck in "chicken and egg" land: can't look at a deal without money, can't get money without a deal.

SO....to me it seems like a chicken and egg thing with securing money for this due diligence phase of the deal making...That is why I was thinking perhaps deal makers need to get due diligence $ from bridge loans or their own personal coffers....Thanks again for chiming in, and hopefully we'll get some of our fellow BP members to help us out!

@Adam Juodis Ardex featherfinish is not an liquid leveling substance but an cementitious product that comes in a 10lb. bag, you mix it with water until it looks like very creamy peanut butter.

I recall saying stuff like this 9 years ago but ate my words, hahaThen a wise man told me not to count my chickens.....

Thanks for the reply Jennifer, it's really the chicken or the egg situation.

As for not proving to the state, I am I the "chicken or the egg" paradox presently.

Reading a book about raising chickens in the backyard that I got for Christmas.