Not only that we would receive a card and box of cookies or macadamia nuts during christmas holiday season.  

All, of who, will share in the fruits of our labor...only on a delayed basis.So we are definitely in a unique situation...however...I have never understood why that is so...I met a carpenter in San Diego once who was working on a restaurant interior...he shared with me that he had a regular job and that this was sideline work (on a Saturday). 

Every hardware store has the caps, they're cheap, and nearly infinitely reusable... just toss them back in your "plumbing" toolbox when you're done.A couple of tips on replacing shutoff valves: if the existing valve inlet has a compression fitting on copper pipe, 95% of the time you can re-use the old hex nut and compression ring/ferrule/"olive". 

I want to start out investing in my local area first just to get a warm and fuzzy and then venture out into other states where the market may be a little more fruitful.

I know that I could go anywhere (including where I currently bank) and get a loan but I thought perhaps it may be a good opportunity to jump start a fruitful relationship. 

Sponsor is critical.. as for the nuts and bolts of why someone wont invest.. the  disclosure documents are enough to scare most folks to death I call it the 50 ways to lose your money doc !!. 

Sometimes it can feel like it's not bearing any fruit, but being a big networker myself and following-up and focusing more on relationship building and just having solutions to investors problems, the time it takes to do it doesn't bother me.

I actually had a kind of similar experience/dilemma but in different industry, I was trading oilseeds/grains from dubai but had decided it was time for a career move and I wanted to switch to trading cacao/cashew nuts sourced from Ivory Coast.

In a nut-shell, you will have to check with the MLS rules for the MLS that you are wanting to join.

You will find some in the Marbach area as well, but the other areas should yield good fruit for you.