As well, does interior design qualify as a real estate business? 

My company is licensed in 31 states for owner occupied loans (check my profile) and I can lend in 45 states for business purposes loans (nonQM and dscr loans).

Do you believe it will now be more cost effective to hold a license or do you believe the expenses will go up with what I assume will be a flight from the business by low producing real estate agents? 

More than 90 percent of real estate agents are out of the business in less than five years.

Some may be comfortable with 100% crypto transactions, while others could opt for a split between cryptocurrency and cash.For sellers unwilling to receive cryptocurrency directly, the digital asset will be converted to dollars to complete the transaction.There are many ways a buyer can use crypto to make a purchase:The simplest way is a Crypto to Crypto transaction, as long as the seller accepts cryptocurrencies as payment.

He and his partner have been in the SoCal business bank world for 40+ years, and entered it at a time when local banking was what businesses did.

From what I have seen, the typical remedy is termination of the contract, refund of the EM deposit and all expenses incurred by the buyer during the failed transaction.

I'm going off the understanding that you still need to spend 500+ hours in the business to achieve material participation (please correct me if I'm wrong). 

Hopefully you have a Checkbook IRA to avoid the red tape and fees of going through the custodian for each transaction.

but I had a few thousand transactions in my experience bucket and I did it for one client only..