It would be unlawful for NAR to discourage members from using any product or service provider.

In this case, the manager of the fund of funds would get compensated from their own syndicate.California does have a couple of exceptions to this for CA real estate brokers or CA registered "finders" but the transaction must be in California to qualify along with some other limitations.The risks of being compensated for referring investors to a deal without a securities broker-dealer's license are this: 1) The syndicate that pays an unlicensed broker may put their own exemption at risk, and 2) The unlicensed broker who accepts an unlawful commission may remain liable for the investment, or be subject to regulatory action by the SEC or a state securities agency.

California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) defines unfair competition to include any “unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent” business act or practice.

What is legal may not be ethical, what is unethical can often be determined to be unlawful as tortious conduct or related criminal activities.

Then I asked her about the charge of "theft by unlawful taking" from 11 years ago.

Not owning the property is precisely what interests me about this plan.Since I own nothing, nothing can be taken from my in a judgment.There are sufficient opportunities for this in Washington, and I’ve already done a few.Further, I’m very confident that what I’m proposing is not unlawful, even though it is generally viewed as unlawful by the public.It could be unlawful if I failed to exorcise due diligence or if I break into another’s improved property, but that is not what I’m proposing.Indeed, I will clearly document the open nature of each property.The key is to document that sufficient diligence was used to establish that a reasonable person would believe the owner has abandoned the property.And really, what is the owner going to sue me for?

My guess is that the unlawful detainer is on his record now and this is public in IL. 

I have read recent accounts of states finding assgent contracts unlawful as well as agreements In place between JV co-wholesaleing partners.

It's NOT an unpermitted in-law unit, or we've got an issue, and there needs to not be a tenant [or cousin Joe...] in there.It takes about 15 minutes to turn an unpermitted unlawful zoning-violating end-of-the-freaking-world in-law unit into a perfectly fine storage shed and/or detached work area in our market.

Rule 510.3Recovery of Attorney's Fees and CostsTo recover attorney's fees in an eviction suit, a landlord must give a tenant who is unlawfully retaining possession of the landlord's premises a written demand to vacate the premises.