That means airline tickets, hotel room, meals and other expenses. 

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

by the way, business milage for 2015 is $0.575/milehttp://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/New-Standard-Milea...Meals and entertainment can be trickier.

And I would be willing to help you out if you want to grab drinks or meal some time.  

yeah I never thought I'd be having a meal with somebody "recognizable."

It's also healthier. lolThanks! 

So he goes out to eat fairly regularly leaving sizable tips most of the time treating others to a meal.

Meals or lodging are your responsibility.

It's really simple.  1% is used when you want your milk to taste like water, 2% is used when you want to drink healthier milk.  

This is market-dependent, but you'll only be in a more secure position if you consider appreciation as icing on the cake rather than the whole meal -- especially for your first purchase.As far as it being a good deal, well it might make money, it might not -- those questions really depend on your experience, how you manage, how you finance the deal, and your exit strategies.