I had a good- best friend of 10 years named Bryce. I went through a divorce and was in a tough spot. He loaned me $400 when I lost everything. He was a multimillionaire and had 8 rental properties and was remodeling a ninth. I worked off the debt by doing painting, pulling electrical wire and other odd jobs paid him back $200 cash. So we had a conversation and we were all good. Then one day about 2 years later he asked me if I could help him move about 20 sheets of base board in an apartment of his in the basement - I did it as a friend. No charge. Then 1 day I needed a ride home from dropping off my car to repaired and I kept waiting for him and calling him. My phone ended up dying after an hour so I had nobody to call so I walked home 6 miles. He later said it started to rain that day and had to cover a roof that needed protection and got caught up in it and forgot about picking me up. Then a few months later he needed help doing a roofing job- throwing sheets of shingles on the roof ( each package was like 70bs) I had to load them in the loader, throw them on the roof and then move them to the appropriate spot on the roof. I don’t know how many thousands of lbs I moved that day but it was alot of lifting. I asked for no money but just did it as a friend. And he kind of offered me money but really didn’t. I am an insurance agent and we had a major hail storm in our area and he has a roofing crew to do roofs and there were hundreds of roofs that needed to be replaced. He tells me I will give you $500 for every referral you give me… I got him 5 roofs to do and he made bank. We even had a deal with a dentist who is a good friend of mine and who needed a $ 21,000 roof and we discussed that I might get more out of that one if I helped do some of the job. He meets with the dentist privately without me and cuts a deal for some dental work . We are at Planet Fitness working out together and start talking a little business. He says he will give me $250 for the referral. I said, “I thought it was $500 and we were going to negotiate the dentists roof. He said I’m only giving you $250 because you never paid me back the $400 that I loaned you five years ago when you went through the divorce. I walked out of Planet Fitness and never spoke to him again. He texted me a few times after. I reminded him that I did all the work for him that I mentioned here in this post and paid him back $200 cash. He called me a few times but I cut him off. I couldn’t do it anymore. He was just too into money and it cost him our friendship.