"Consulting" may be interpreted as acting as a real estate broker without a license.Assigning you contract is perfectly legal.

In talking to multiple compliance officers each have his/her own interpretation of what the violations "MIGHT HAVE BEEN".

Feel free to buy at all time highHey Justin, am I interpreting you correctly by thinking you are saying the entire market is overpriced and no profit-generating properties are available?

Common sense/body language and eye contact is major in the pre screening process.Prior to becoming a member on BP, a lot of my experience came from trial and error, I don't use a property manager , I am my property manager, so am involved in all aspects of the my rental properties.Since joining BP, I have tightened up my lease a bit to include things I actually didn't think of from reading the discussions on various topics and situation pertaining to landlord issues.Outside of reading/interpreting/ understanding and applying the local landlord tenant law, I learned quite a bit from just sitting in court for an unlawful detainer and hearing other landlords/PMs discuss unlawful detainer cases, prior to mine being called and I took notes to apply to my process.

This is pretty much the way other federal laws and regulations are applied in financial matters.The opinions of the regulators would have to be pretty far fetched to have their interpretation to be struck down.

A simple search online will bring up articles available from lawyers indicating that such a statement is considered discriminatory because it can be interpreted to indicate a preference.

This is the main reason why you would have the UBIT assessed.If however the company was a C-corp, then the company would pay taxes, and thus your 401k would not be subject to UBIT.We generally advise clients not to invest in LLCs with their 401k or IRA for this reason because the IRS could easily "interpret" the UBTI rules negatively against you since the LLC is an active business (which is unrelated to the passive investment purpose of the 401k or IRA).A better solution is to have the 401k Trust purchase the property (if that's what you're doing) and get financing for it.

Legal Services) have taken the interpretation that you cannot ask for first and last month's rent.

But I could not find his post on that.Here are some threads that might help the OP: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/81868-home-repairs-and-tax-write-offs http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/110032-cash-bought-primary-residence-to-rental-capital-gains-and-costs http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/70013-techniques-to-report-capital-improvements-as-repairs http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/116094-how-can-i-take-advantage-of-depreciation http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/108905-room-for-interpretation-in-tax-laws

Underwriters will interpret the AUS, waiving or demanding the conditions set forth by the system generated parameters.