<prompt> Human: Hello. I originally posted asking for advice with regards to loaning money to a friend. In general the advice was to not do it, but a reasonable number of people suggesting to do it after signing a contact. Given the wide distribution in opinions and the relative frequency this must come up for other people I thought I would provide a quick update. View original post here: Anyway, we went ahead and loaned the money at 0 interest and told the friend if they repaid the money early we would remove 200 from the repayment. We wanted to incentivize her to repay the money as quickly as possible without resulting to interest. We obtained a contract from Rocket lawyer which we both agreed upon and had it notarized. To this point all payments have been made and we are a single payment away to being fully repaid.I would suggest that if you have a friend in need consider following these steps. Of course everyones situation is different and the major reason this worked out for us is that we loaned it to a responsible person. That being said I wanted to share the success story to perhaps inspire others to help friends in need.  <response>: Hey good for you. I still wouldnt want money between friends. 