Or will they fill out a gift letter showing it isn't a loan?

There are a number of local suppliers who inflate their prices and give discounts to contractors, but in the end this is a mental trojan horse game.I think over the long haul using Lowes or HD's "pro" programs coupled with discounts from their CCs or gift cards (from a site like Raise or CardCash) will lead to the lowest costs for a given project comparing apples to apples.

I gifted 6 to my children still have two and sold 20 homes and netted $3.5 million.

To differentiate, What about offering a gift basket for when they arrive?

I know a few really successful business owners, plumbers, landscapers and carpenters, who almost never pick up a pen and you would never catch them sitting in front of a 'puter', but they do have the 'gift of gab' and they know people.

That's just a flat out gift from the government.

If I have a "gift", it is that I am able to communicate with people.

I believe the transaction would be considered a gift if no money is transferred and it would use part of the lifetime gift tax benefit.

The Tesla will be a gift for myself when I've reached my goals.

but at the end of the day people have different gifts and values that will set them on different courses.