What I will do is give you an illustrative story, and maybe you can bring your knowledge up a little.Big Apartments LLC - a manager managed LLC with two members.Member #1 is You (Patrick), the Manager (and also a Member), you have put $500 into the LLC and own 50 Membership Units (a 50% owner).Member #2 is your brother in-law (lets call him Richard Smith) he is not the manager (although he could be a co-manager but is not because that's the way you two want it).Richard has also put $500 into the LLC and own 50 Membership Units (a 50% owner).You two guys are 50/50 owners of Big Apartments LLC, evidenced by your Membership Certificates (which look a little like old fashioned stock certificates but are not stock shares).The company has $1,000 in the kitty and since Richard won at Poker last night he's flush with cash, $1,000.You and Richard agree that he can lend the LLC $1,000 (that's in addition to his already put in $500).Since this is only a loan it does not effect his ownership percentage of the company.

If one is a gamer that stays up late and the other is a crossfit coach that wakes up super early, may not be a good fit.

Poker players fill the city during The World Series of Poker and pay top dollar for "cool" properties that are close to the strip or in high end areas. 

No, I'm not a big gamer, but when you have five minutes to kill, its fun to play a quick game.

Just a numbers game really..  

Thing was, crazy dude got results but apparently in CA, if you get stuck with gamer tenants like one landlord client of the crazy eviction dude had with his beachfront condo and the 20 or so squatters there, common practice according to crzy eviction dude, who even found an illegal hooch still inside and called LAPD, is STILL PAYING THEM TO LEAVE!

As they say in poker.

He learned why the seller was selling and the financial position of the seller - the seller was a successful professional poker player.

Tom Goans, you must be one heck of a poker player.

@Angelo Wong  It's like a poker game.