Not sure if anyone is aware of this, but Marco's partner and CFO, Ronald Fossum, was charged with fraud by the SEC fairly recently and barred from participating in any type of similar activity.

They explicitly state in the course that they will keep that contract on file and if any of your clients tries to come to them directly within the timeframe that you set, they will send them back to you.I will repeat once more, I am not affiliated with this course or it's participants at all. 

You would work with other lenders and do a participation agreement, but many of them will require you to put in 20-40% of the money, have a net worth of 2x what they are including as they will want you to buy back the loan if it goes into default.3.

For tax purposes, it’s about whether you pass the 750-hour rule, the 50% rule, and meet the material participation requirements.

The main one being material participation. 

Sites such as biggerpockets.com have many syndicators that participate in the forums.

How he was barely hanging on and wasnt getting paid any of the money I was sending the GC.

Listed a property in the fall here in LC and barely got any bites.

I have great tenants that are participating and I have had awful tenants participating in the program.

For the material participation test, the easiest way to get it is Via the 100 hours and worked more than anyone else.