If you have more of a business/financial background perhaps your skill set would enable you to be more beneficial raising capital, getting loans, presenting deals to partners for an equity stake etc.

As such, "combining" funds in the manner you suggest becomes very difficult and even if done "in the recommended fashion" not without risk.There is an interpretation that an IRA/401k and disqualified party may joint venture in a very rigid fashion.The title is vested jointly on day one, reflecting the percentage of ownership.The equity in the project may not be altered in any way between the JV partners.AND - the tricky part - this is only OK if both sides could do the transaction alone and are not being enabled to participate in a transaction they would not have been able to without access to the disqualified funds.So, if your 401k (could) purchase a property - perhaps with a non-recourse loan - and chooses to JV with you instead, that is OK.  

This would enable the European Central Bank to start giving them emergency loans again. 

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Filing complaints with the real estate commission or the local board of Realtors, may make enable you to vent, but they will not make you whole.The escrow company isn't going to take sides in this dispute. 

Since I am a deal enabler, how can I legally get paid without p***ing anyone off and do it all above board?

This consistent demand, and growth of it, in turn enables trusted and known managers to command a price premium in the marketplace.But the benefits of vacation rental managers’ scaling outweigh basic brand marketing alone.

The alternative option is to walk down the path of building into the operating agreement "mutually acceptable" minority rights through supermajority voting requirements and conditions to the exercise of majority rights.Reviewing the factors in a given situation hopefully will enable you to select the best type of entity for your business and understand the primary and collateral consequences.

I wouldn't rule out hard money - it exists for a reason and could be a short term solution that enables you to get control of a property, add value and then move into a lower-cost lender.

I also believe I need that 'real work experience', or certainly the skills it enables me to further.