I basically bought that property with no money out of pocket.

so 4  times a year flying to the event renting hotels etc .so add in another easy 10k.. and from what I saw you had folks at the top of their game and you had some that were trying to scale up so the ones that were at the top it appeared to me to be more like social for them and they could help others. 

Hard Money, and then paid for the repairs out of pocket since they were only 3K.

It is higher risk with the potential of greater rewards but does require much deeper pockets to succeed.

After spending a night with them every couple of weeks having dinner and playing board games, I became more and more interested in the business.

A little background about myself, I am an engineer for an aerospace company in CT. During my "spare time", I enjoy playing/ watching soccer, kick boxing, traveling and reading books. Like many of you, my aspiration to...

This means that the remainder of the interest I owe my investor would have to come out of my pocket.   

Welcome to Bigger Pockets, @Chris Sullivan!

But for me it’s about the “grove” I’ve put myself in by leaping into this real estate game with both feet.

https://jalopnik.com/nycs-subway-is-falling-apart-...I'll leave this here... an interesting article from one of my favorite websites, other than Bigger Pockets.