I know.
See, because me and my husband have good jobs and are good with money, people ask us all the time. Sometimes we say yes for once in a lifetime things -- my husband's mom wanted to go to Portugal to visit family she hadn't seen in years, a niece's school trip to Paris. But this? Yikes.
To my friend it's very simple, we'll get paid back when she sells the house. To me it isn't, so many things could go wrong. I just feel like crap because I like to help people but this is a bit much. She wants 20 thousand. Geez....