Skin in the Game
A long time ago I used to own a small development company w/a good friend of mine. I know, business partnerships with friends rarely work, but Chad and I not only have been friends since middle school, we also have had several business ventures together. Each had been a grand adventure. Although our business ventures are no longer, Chad and I still enjoy our friendship. One of the projects Chad and I had was a big abandoned building on Division and Logan downtown Grand Rapids. In the process of purchasing the building back in the early 2000's I can remember negotiating with Ed Kalus an old school real-estate investor. Ed was probably in his 80's then. He was a shrewd businessman even in later years. It would have been interesting running into him when he was younger. We met several times to talk about the purchase of his building. It was a huge project for Chad and me. It was a three story 18,000 sq. foot building that we were planning on gutting and converting into comme