it is also difficult to engage in wholesaling with your IRA without providing services to the IRA, which may be why your current custodian is not willing to process such deals.Short term gap funding to an unrelated wholesaler or other such strategies may better fit within an IRA, where everything needs to be very much at arm's length, and where passive income is tax favored (as opposed to trade or business income such as this).

But any broker can engage in commercial or residential transactions.

This is a step in the right direction.Look forward to engaging with you all!

Always wise to engage with other members of the community to get a feel for the best course of action.

After some research, it seems, there is nothing illegal about it, as long as there is not active knocking/engaging with the home owner, as well as staying away from communities whos HOA has a no trespassing signI get them all the time at my house, but they are usually for restaurants, which isn't offensive at all, which is why people probably won't complain and much as "I would like to help you sell your house if your house, etc"If anyone has any advice or knowledge about possible fines associated with this it would be much appreciated. 

I live and work in Northern Virginia area and I’m looking to purchase my first multifamily property to engage in a house hack.

Having engaged in reading about rental properties, I proposed to my brothers that we each save $1,000/month from our jobs and invest in two multi-family homes in a year, and save the cash flow from those homes to buy more homes in the coming years.My older brother's preference is to take over his client's buildings.

Feeling really inspired to pursue financial freedom and I'm looking forward to getting engaged on the site!

In RI it's attorneys who handle the escrow/closing, rather than title companies.Usually in Rhode Island, if you're using an agent and the standard RIAR (RI Association of Realtors) purchase and sale forms, you wouldn't engage an attorney until your offer is accepted (which in RI is the same as getting a signed P&S back), unless you or the seller is putting something out of the ordinary in the P&S (usually in the additional provisions on the last page but there are a few other places extra language can be added).In that case you might want to bring in your attorney to double check the language you or (especially) the seller are proposing, just so you understand what you'd be committing to.I'm not sure what your connection is to Rhode Island but since your profile says you're in Maryland there are probably some differences between the two states when it comes to real estate.

I've listened to many of the BP podcasts over the years and I'm excited to start engaging with you all!