This situation has all the earmarks of becoming a real problem for you. If you take it on you are going to regret it on many levels............financially and the loss of a friend.

But from reading your post, he doesn't seem like a true friend. If he were, he would be more considerate and respectful of you, he is trying to force you to do something you can't possibly do.

This is one of the major reasons we resist doing any work for anyone else. Not only would people we know be wanting stuff done, but they would expect it done NOW at a price we couldn't make a dime at. Plus they would be hanging around all day watching and "helping". People come up and stand outside my cat gate pretty often, and I kinda blow them off because I would never get anything done if I gabbed to each and every one all day.

Tell your friend you have too many irons in the fire and you are getting older, so you can't keep up that pace any longer. I'm your age, and I know I can't do what I once did. I don't have to own a crystal ball to see how this story will end up if you give in.

Don