The original suit filed by the DOJ alleges that in early 2005, a Landsafe executive called a meeting of appraisal managers and made it clear that (1) they needed to quit thinking of an appraisal as a separate unit, (2) that Landsafe appraisers were there only to “help facilitate closing,” and (3) that they needed to change their “thought process.”

But anytime you are acting on your own and facilitating deals between others you take on the role of an agent.I have "wholesaled" tons of deals, but I started doing it before it was known as such and turned into a guru business strategy, really....if you can flip a junker to a landlord or a rehabber, you should be able to flip a nice home to a real end buyer.

If the note is exchanged to facilitate the purchase and sale of a minor asset or consumer good, to correct for the seller’s cash-flow difficulties, or to advance some other commercial or consumer purpose, on the other hand, the note is less sensibly described as a “security.” .Second, we examine the “plan of distribution” of the instrument, to determine whether it is an instrument in which there is “common trading for speculation or investment”.Third, we examine the reasonable expectations of the investing public: The Court will consider instruments to be “securities” on the basis of such public expectations, even where an economic analysis of the circumstances of the particular transaction might suggest that the instruments are not “securities” as used in that transaction. […]Finally, we examine whether some factor such as the existence of another regulatory scheme significantly reduces the risk of the instrument, thereby rendering application of the Securities Acts unnecessary.

Finding someone to facilitate the last part which is to sell the property.

They are not facilitating a transaction but just giving information that is generally in the public domain.Birddoging, is different where someone presents a property with a price or value, may estimate repairs, provides details as to condition and does so for compensation arising out of a transaction, that is what Realtors do. :)

The same should be your practice, that at the first opportunity you should explain your interest in the property and that you can facilitate the sale to them.

You'll find too that an unlicensened person may receive commissions as an executor of an estate and that person my work to wind up the business of an agent or broker who passed away.So, such statutes exist to facilitate existing business in the mill not to go out and continue working with an inactive license.

If so is having a NY LLC facilitating your goals?

So, the seller needs to present the contract to the listing broker (not the agent, but the agent can facilitate the change) to have the commissions amended to reflect the intent.This is such a PITA that I simply paid commissions to my parents, they paid the taxes on it and, well, sometimes if I was good, Santa was nicer to me!

And Matt, I think we talked about this some, using other peoples money or facilitating thedeal can be brokering!