Interesting to see how this thread progressed since I last posted in it...to see which predictions I made were wrong and which were right. Back then, I was disparaged as a nay-sayer for supposing that a minimum investment in becoming an LP would likely be more than 250k and that HC would use very vague QC guidelines as a means to weed out "undesirable" applications (meaning those that were not million dollar players). It appears both of those suppositions were correct, as I have yet to find a currently operating LP that has put out less than 250k to start up (is there not just four right now that have each put out a million or more?) and I've found plenty of complaints in this thread about ambiguous QC hoops to jump through, endlessly, which I believe have put some small start-ups out of the running????
Forgive the shameless, "I told you so" tone here, but I took a bit of beating from those who didn't care for my statement of what was very obvious at the time.
Anyway... of the small start-ups (some of whom said said they could do it for less than 50k), who is left in the running? Maximum, Kootnaygirl, Redi Jedi? Are you all still in the process? How much is it costing? Are you getting close? Was up???