QE operations are simply asset swaps that provided liquidity to a seizing market, this averted a depression.

When the LOC is drawn down you swap equity for cash.

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.

Well, you can just cash out your 401k, and swallow the penalty and tax implications.Another option would be to incorporate your business, start a retirement plan, transfer all your 401k / IRA money into the company retirement system, swap the cash with shares, and use the cash to expand the business.

Also, your hypothetical deal package can be reused once you have the deal by swapping out the "fake" data with the real thing. 

I just haven't made a choice to swap them all out until they go bad.

You could do the comp in a similar way as bird dogging.Lastly, I like the swap of "[...]

Send the report to my electrician, he reviewed the items and said there isnt one that is a code violation for existing homes, this was was a 20 year old house,  we had not done any of the electrical work, except swap out some lights.

Then he took off for 'lunch', the plumber swapped out the valve in 30 minutes but our tenants had to wait until 2pm before the water was turned on again. 

You will be required to compute and pay depreciation recapture taxes when you ultimately sell (and not 1031 Exchange) at the end (assuming that you are not a swap 'til you drop kinda investor) whether you have depreciated the property or not.