These are licensed and registered people and firms.According to the SEC and FINRA a "broker" is any person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others.Events or actions such as helping a company sell shares to raise capital, engaging in other activities like participating in presentations and negotiations, making recommendations to investors concerning securities, receiving transaction-based compensation (i.e. commissions or finder’s fees), and continuing or regular involvement in sales of securities are evidence of activities rendering a person a broker.The term ‘‘security’’ means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a ‘‘security’’, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.Finders can avoid registering as a broker by limiting their activities to:Introducing prospective investors to a company without engaging in negotiations.Not recommending the company’s securities to prospective investors.Basing their compensation on a flat fee that is not contingent on the closing of a securities sale.You can find most of this on line on the SEC website.

When the Treasury Department had to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a part of that agreement was to wind the two agencies down.

"From 2009 through the first quarter of 2012, we received a total of $116.1 billion from Treasury under the senior preferred stock purchase agreement.

It's amazing what a cup of coffee or a few beers will accomplish.My mentor recommended that a successful partnership has three things: Time, Talent, and Treasury which echoes your points verbatim.

Hello BP members,I just bought a condo in Colorado at a US Treasury Auction.  

Treasury so...who knows.

At a bare minimum an investor will need a return higher than the risk free rate (generally the rate of a Treasury Bill for the same term length) plus a rate to account for inflation and then the a risk premium on top of that. 

He just told me that he has no where else to put this money (we are not going to do any more projects together) and he doesn't want to go back into treasuries or CDs, so a well secured note at 6% or more might be something he would be content with.

A recent Treasury rule extension made it very clear that even the smallest or lowest volume seller of manufactured homes was now subject to the anti money laundering statutes and must have a Compliance Management System in place by August 13, 2012.

The Treasury Regulations require the investor have the "intent" to hold both the relinquished property and the replacement property for rental, investment of use in a business.