<p>this guy owes me $50, but i do not know where he lives. With some work, I can find out, but is it worth it for $50?</p>
<p>Ask yourself how much you need the 50$. But since you went through the trouble of opening a thread on it, I doubt you really need it, so do whatever is the most comfortable for you,.</p>
<p>A penny saved is a penny earned. $50 is a ton of pennies.</p>
<p>The police hound someone out for $25 tickets, and it’s not like the city will collapse if it doesn’t get your $25. You don’t have the budget of a city, and $50 is more than $25.</p>
<p>If it’s a “he lives ~20 miles, I just have to find out where,” go find him. If he lives in California and you live in Michigan, I’d let it go.</p>
<p>I kill for $50</p>
<p>How much work? And how likely is he to give you the money once you find him?</p>
<p>$50 is a lot of money to me. (But not a <em>huge</em> lot. If $50 fell into my lap, it wouldn’t go toward rent or tuition or food or assigned texts or anything else right away. If I needed $50 for my rent and this was my best chance to get it, I would pursue it as hard as I could.) And I don’t loan that kind of money unless I’m prepared to not get it back. In fact, I try to avoid loaning people money at all; if I know they need it and I can afford it and they matter to me I’ll try to give them money, but with no expectation of repayment.</p>
<p>But since the guy hasn’t already paid/repaid you and since he’s not keeping in touch, my guess is that it’s not just going to be a matter of you finding out where he is and reminding him of the debt. In a case like that, I probably wouldn’t bother. Because my time and energy is important to me too and since I wouldn’t really expect to get paid either way, I’d rather use my time and energy on something else.</p>
<p>i ain’t loanin no money to no foo</p>
<p>Well, I’d only track him down if it would take less than an hour. any more than that is just ridiculous. You need to consider the cost-benefit ratio and decide how much you truly value your time. For me, any extensive work would NOT be worth it.</p>
<p>I will track him down for that $50. My money isn’t to be lent out liberally without being returned. Definitely depends on his financial situation though. If he’s a rich kid and taking advantage of me, I will track him down. If he doesn’t have a lot of money and his family is struggling, I would be more forgiving if he didn’t return the money.</p>
<p>Hold on … to even lend someone $50 dollars I would have to have that person’s trust so thats one thing , and if he doesn’t repay it after repeated times asking, I would forcefully take my money back … and just to teach the kid a lesson take more</p>
<p>Well I wouldn’t loan out $50 without collateral, unless it was to a good friend who would pay it back or to a good friend that really needed it.</p>
<p>If someone on my floor said they needed $50 for something, I wouldn’t just loan it out unless they had a payment plan. One time I had to buy like 8 tickets when I expected to get 2, because everyone forgot to bring money (I had my checkbook luckily), and I made sure everyone would get me my money in the next few days (without being too much of a dick).</p>
<p>In that situation, I held the tickets (the event was at a later date) until they paid me back.</p>
<p>If you gave a guy $50 and you haven’t seen him since, is that really enough to go to his house and confront him about it? If you find his address, I would type up a letter saying that you want your money back in the most formal way possible. Tell him you need the money for something, and regret pressuring him (something along the lines so he knows you need the money back, without making him feel ****ed off).</p>
<p>I’d do whatever it takes to get that money back. I’d also never loan anyone $50 in the first place. That is a LOT of money for me.</p>
<p>$50 is a bit of money, but maybe tracking someone down isn’t the best idea.</p>
<p>I prefer merely spooking them with apparitions of freaky assassin-looking dudes on his dark sidewalk.</p>
<p>Hunt that jerk down!</p>
<p>It’s like my weekly grocery shopping expense</p>
<p>you gave $50 to someone and you don’t know where he lives?</p>
<p>I loaned a few hundred to a guy who was training to be a minister at our church a long time ago. He was in a pinch with the IRS and said he needed the cash. I suggested that he just work something out with them (they do payment plans if you don’t have the cash) but he just wanted to be done with it with respect to them. So I loaned it to him. And he never mentioned it again. The lesson that I learned is you don’t loan money to friends - you give money to friends. If they give it back, then that’s nice but don’t expect it back.</p>
<p>^ i agree .</p>