One of my business partners who sold his garbage and recycle business to waste management in 99 for 65million .. he LOVED to set up people in this conversation.WE would be at a club event or a dinner party or wine deal at one of the local Napa wineries ( we were both members of the same CC) and I can hear it coming.. someone who does not know him and was usually a stock broker would start up the what are you investing in conversation.. and Bill that's his name.. would say I have double tax free muni's  and of course the borker would say UGH those only return 3 to 4% you can do much better your cash flow is very low.. he would say.. well it depends on how many of those bonds you have.. and then proceed to tell him he had about 40 mil in those bonds.. so making a nice 100 to 150k a month double tax free kept him in beans and rice. not to mention the 40 acre vineyard estate he owns in Napa that he bought from the president of firemans fund insurance ( awesome house) and his lake front house at Tahoe his two or three trophy ranchs for hunting.. etc etc.. 

Once you squeeze your 38 year old (and now slightly heftier bulk, get off my back I like craft beer and wine) through that hole you can then point the aforementioned fireplace at the P trap while you begin to heat tape the frozen toilet water supply line because "bro, toilet won't flush yo....".

My area is seeing a lot of growth from out of state and thought it would be great to have a nice welcome letter as well as a handbook for specific type of questions (how to use the fireplace, How to use and program the auto lights, How to program the automatic schlage lock, favorite local restaurants, etc) When we bought a home several years ago the sellers left us a note as well as a bottle of wine and to this day we still talk about that for a first impression.

@Science and Human ingenuity usually has been wining in the last 10 decades over disease for sure.

Purchase price: $230,000 Cash invested: $10,000 Standard cosmetic 3 bed 2 bath home in up and coming wine country area about 45 min from Portland, OrGoing to be putting in roughly $35k and selling for $325k when done What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Bottle of wine? 

@Nicolas JeffersonLet me know if you find a cure :) 

Attorney drinks the wine

What about a fruit basket or a bottle of wine/champagne?

At the last one I went to a few years ago one of the old-timer REO kings in our area said nowadays to make connections you have to plunk down some serious cash wining & dining, golf, strip clubs, etc.