It could be as simple as meeting 5-10 others at a coffee shop in town and discussing your goals.By meeting others and establishing rapport, you could partner with someone, do a wholesale deal, etc. to build capital that would eventually enable you to reach your REI goals. 

Prior to our arrival, you would assist in preparation of our arrival and possibly help to get done one or two things prior to my arrival.All you need is to initiate the process that will enable me to transfer the funds that will be required as soon as we have finalized and agreed to the terms of business.

who do 90% of everything from some sort of cellular enabled mobile device or smart phone.  

Similar to a peer-to-peer lending platform, also called crowdfunding, a family lending platform enables relatives to lend one another money while the “platform” intelligently handles the contractual details and the loan servicing, e.g. payments.

Honestly, the income from my properties actually enables me to take bigger risks within my own career.  

I am a regional musician and work in the food distribution industry to pay the bills ;) I own on SF property in addition to my private residence and am very excited about building a real estate portfolio consisting primarily of Multi-Family properties.

I'm also a musician, but likely a much different genre.

I have been looking in to buying 2-4 room appartments, with the purpose of retning out the rooms individually.That both raises the rate which you can take pr square meter, and enables you to let a tenant go without a reason and with 1 months notice.

And shows how you leveraged the amazing resource that is this very forum to make the right connections and foster relationships that enabled this deal to happen in the first place.

There are several ways that such a transaction could still be viewed as prohibited by the IRS, such as if either party to the transaction did not have sufficient capital to execute the deal on its own, and was therefore being enabled to engage in the transaction due to access to the disqualified party funds.