Originally Posted by S Folinsky

<sigh> People always focus on the amount of the investment.

Many years back I attended a lecture by the attorney in the famous [at least in the immigration bar ] case of Walsh & Pollard which stands for the proposition that the amount of the investment does not necessarily determine whether it is "substantial." I recall Mr. Klasko talking about the amount of the investment being "a one year lease on a one room office, a desk, three chairs, a two line telephone, a fax machine and most important -- a potted plant."