<prompt> Human: So, as the title states, my father has asked to borrow 50K from me to help towards renovations at an apartment building he owns. He said he would pay me back in a few months. I have this money in savings plus a little more, but worst case scenario, never seeing this money again would be crushing.My father has never given me any indication of being untrustworthy, and also paid my way through college, which I am eternally grateful for, so I feel bad for kind of avoiding giving him a direct answer, which I have been doing. I love him to death and want to help him, but Ive never done anything like this before. What precautions should I take? I havent even asked about his consideration of getting a loan, as Im assuming hes looking to avoid interest through me. Any thoughts on this would be helpful. Thanks in advance.  <response>: If he can truly pay it back in a few months, then getting a business loan from a bank should be easy as hell, especially if he owns the building outright and can put it up as collateral. Hed pay a few months of very low interest, then pay off the entire principal in a few months without putting your savings at risk in exchange for maybe 1,000 in interest practically nothing against the sum of money hes asking for.If a bank wont give him a loan which is their bread and butter maybe you should question why. What does the bank know, or what wont your father tell the bank, that made them decline the loan? 