Often times, especially for mortgages that exceed the GSE standards, some other actor on the secondary market is willing to pay top dollar.

It is not an act carried out after the act or investment has been made. 

But I know there are many legitimate, honest actors who will get the deal done, and will not charge the homeowner a penny.I know there are also companies that do the negotiation with the lenders.

Anyone can go back to my previous posts and I think what you will find is that most of the time I mentioned the Safe Act or other requirements, that there is little acknowlegement by anyone and it is ignored as it has been in this thread.So, Conrad, compliance will likely be a downside to what you have planned.

In most spaces there are bad actors and or inexperienced sponsors.

At best, the reality show actors probably make a brief appearance at the highest cost events.  

I'm not even sure there was malicious intent, just a long list of things that could and did go wrong. 

Also a professional actor; you can find my work as 'John Patryn' (stage name) on IMDb ROOTSBorn in Poland, grew up in Finland, moved to NYC from Stockholm, Sweden.

There are bad actors with disregard for the law, disrespect for tenants and who use discriminatory practices.

There’s not much you can do if a borrower decides to move into one of their properties, in spite of their initial claim that they won’t, thereby invoking the Safe act or doing something else to turn the loan from a business to private purpose.