I finally spoke with my friend and asked for permission to post this because she deserves some sort of say. she is terrified for her life considering Marcus got his associate to threaten her life. shes an older lady who was just looking for a home to enjoy the rest of her life in to do her bit of gardening.

@Mindy JensenAs a non-licensed engineer, at first glance I'd say "yeah, sort of."  200# loading of other rafters and what not is fine, especially spreadout. 

Three out of four of the worst houses on the block (including mine) have all been sold and renovated in the past 6-8 months.. and the 4th was just foreclosed on, bank did minor fixes and are putting it up for sale.

@Diana Mulvihill, what sorts of items/services would you be looking to use this platform for?

@Gino Barbaro I have contacted a couple of mortgage brokers the only products they are offering are actually worst terms than commercial HELOC options with rates around 10.5, where with the residential I am currently getting right around prime rate.

Ideally, we would find a coach of some sort that could help us find a deal that works, knows the ropes of the building an LLC. 

Those offers never came, one was supposed to be from an affordable housing nonprofit that had access to 4.5% financing, but they put us on ice for a few months while we waited for their slow board aproval process, and then they had some sort of organizational staffing shakeup and recently told us they couldnt put an offer in.

The way we look at it however is this sort of situation would be OK - but its a one time referral fee - any sort of arrangement with a long-term referral fee / borrower protection is reserved for true professional mortgage brokers - who like @Chris Seveney mentioned, would be doing more legwork on the deal vs. a simple and clean referral handoffvia CFPB on referral fees for business-purpose hard money loans:§ 1024.5 Coverage of RESPA.THIS VERSION IS THE CURRENT REGULATIONView all versions of this regulationSearch this regulationRegulation X(a) Applicability.

I love hosting and have tremendous passion and attention to detail with property management that seems incredibly hard to find those sorts of proactive skills in people when looking to hire for my own rentals. 

You can go to Redfin.com and put a search area in “list view” - versus map view and it will let you sort that area by all the table headers in the list - so you can sort them by $$/sqft for instance.