highlandsflyer
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My cousin came to me three years ago asking for help with his landscaping business. He wanted to take on a couple of grass cutters. I told him he was too small to compete on grass cutting, so should use another firm where needed.
Now he is back, knowing we sold our house here not long ago, asking for a 'loan'. As soon as we looked into where he lost money the last couple of years it was obvious. Two sets of wages paid out for seasonal grass cutting work.
After some terse exchanges I have advised him to sell his Warrior, after all we are driving around in old 4x4s to save money, and we are already paying my aunt more than a reasonable rent, even though we have helped out with their farm problems for many years and were not asked to pay anything more than our bills here in return!
OK, all that you did not need to suffer, but when I give advise to people it is a rule of mine not to help when they don't follow it.
Is that unreasonable?
Now he is back, knowing we sold our house here not long ago, asking for a 'loan'. As soon as we looked into where he lost money the last couple of years it was obvious. Two sets of wages paid out for seasonal grass cutting work.
After some terse exchanges I have advised him to sell his Warrior, after all we are driving around in old 4x4s to save money, and we are already paying my aunt more than a reasonable rent, even though we have helped out with their farm problems for many years and were not asked to pay anything more than our bills here in return!
OK, all that you did not need to suffer, but when I give advise to people it is a rule of mine not to help when they don't follow it.
Is that unreasonable?