I remember a saying someone told me a couple of decades ago that convey's to real estate investing: "If you've been sitting at the poker table for 15 minutes and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're the patsy!"

Amarillo hold em poker room.The other thing to consider is what is the exit strategy. 

Or is that his poker face?

I have been BRRRR-ing in Milwaukee since 2009 and while it got progressively harder to find deals the game really changed after 2020.

There is a saying "if you've been sitting at the poker table for more than 15 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is...then you're the patsy".

I'm great at reading people - that comes with playing millions of poker hands in my life - if my gut tells me things do not sound right then I pull away.But a scammer has to expose himself/herself because they don't wanna hang around forever.

It’s a numbers game."

PS5, TV and two gamer chairs is about the same cost or less than an arcade unitThis is true and that is why I have Xbox in my cabins.  

There is a saying in business, "If you're sitting at the poker table for more than 15 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy."

I think everyone has the right to transact that whatever level they want to.what happened here is that you had new investors getting a marketing message that is so far from reality.. and once they get in the game reality starts to hit themadd that to a ground partner that did not execute.