Needless to say, they ended up clouding title on hundreds of homes, and their actions both got them a stretch in Club Fed for 7-75 yrs, along with being barred for life in Iowa from engaging in any way in the business of buying and selling real estate or selling securities.Personally, this seems like a bad work around for Dodd/Frank, verse just hooking up with an independent licensed mortgage banker in the area, to have them underwrite the property tax loan/2nd mortgage for a fee of $750 or $1,000, which could be tacked onto the total loan amount to be repaid over a couple of years.

Moving forward I'll be more engaged and present in the forums as I just got back from vacation.

However there are many Disciplinary updates on the Tennessee Real Estate Commission website where people have been fined for "engaging in real estate activities" and aren't agents. 

If you have engaged an architect, this would be right up their alley of services. 

Then you can engage in things that peek your interest and branch out from there by making connections!  

And let them know that I want to engage in evaluating syndications.

@Ryan Howard welcome...doing some more research on your desired path should shed some light on the environment you're working in...I would caution noting that you do not have capital, but want to wholesale to raise capital...you're essentially admitting you are trying to broker real estate without a license...you will hear lots of opinions on this, but the bottom line is if you have no intent to close on a contract you enter into, you're engaging in unlicensed activity and subject to $1,000/day fines.I'm not saying don't wholesale...I am saying do your homework so you don't end up in a tight situation.Taking time to explore every option in RE investing is not a good approach...I can save you years of heartache and you'll be wealthy much faster by sticking to fundamentals...long-term buy and hold real estate is the only path you need to go down. 

What do you use to keep engaged with your network and keep them up to speed on what you're up to and vice versa?

Hello Bigger Pocket users, Thanks for taking the time to engage in my post!

Keep doing what you're doing, hopefully, someday I'll regret not engaging you earlier.