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Originally Posted by Ladytmt
A close friend made me a business proposition and is now mad at me because I wouldn't do it. I would have had to take out a loan which I do not want to do. They want me to take out a loan to start a business i know nothing about (but they do) and they offered to run the business for me and help me with learning it. They said the business will provide a nice supplemental income for me. This person in the past has made empty promises to me, ignores my calls when they feel like. So this isn't an ideal situation to go in and i just didn't feel comfortable but i feel bad because they are mad at me. He's making me feel stupid for passing up this opportunity. He also has a criminal background ( few years old but its still a background to me) but i truly thinks he forgets i know this. He claims this business money would be all for me. But the fact that he offered to give up what he does to run it for me doesn't sit well and i wonder why he's so mad that I don't want to do it if it truly was to help me. I feel he may try to do something criminal or take some of the money from me especially since I don't know the business. I did the right thing right? Why is he so mad that i'm now being ignored?
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This "friend" is after the money and wants to use you to get that money, or so it seems to me looking in from the outside. Never ever take advice from someone that insists you take a loan out for something. Especially when it's clear that they have a stake in what they are suggesting. Offering to run it for you? Come on. If he wants to run a business and knows it's such a good prospect and opportunity wtf isn't he taking the loan out himself and doing so? I'm sure there are a few people that might be motivated purely by wanting to help a friend but it's rare and with his anger following, I just don't see it as something that was merely his trying to help you at all... no there is an ulterior motive here.
yes, in a nutshell you did the right thing.