MIP no longer has any ties with James Wachob. 

The good news is that we are not under any tight time constraints, the current owner is very easy to talk with and isn't tied to a particular outcome.

Most of us keep our money tied up in other investments and may not have capital readily available at any time.

It is amazing that people listen to you if you have never walked a mile in their shoes!! 

So in short my cash was not tied up very long at all.

There is a massive difference in lifestyle and immediate spending power for one that has liquid funds vs one that is all tied up in assets that isn't easily liquidated.  

Cash is king for a reason , it gives you the power to buy deals that would normally have a lot of yellow/red tape and save you thousands, then you can make repairs and pull your money back out if need be (cash out refinance)  very few people have enough cash and even fewer want to tie it up either but with the right deal it can be a game changer!

As a Huntsville native, I can tell you the success of Huntsville is still largely tied to Redstone Arsenal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redstone_Arsenal) and Marshall Space Flight Center.

Since it;s just 2 of you, it's hard to have a tie breaker, but you can agree to have a 3 party tie breaker OR do as Venture Capitalists do, ALL partners have to agree to fund a deal or else it's not going to happen.Good luck ;-)

While I'm in the 'just write a check and close the deal' camp, if I wanted to tie up a deal in order to carve out a piece of it, I might ask what my buddy Mike Cantu (wholesaler extraordinare) would do vs.