Registration of Foreign Associations – General Rule and ExclusionsGeneral Rule – A foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership may not do business in this Commonwealth until it registers with the Department of State.Exclusions – Activities of a foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute doing business in this Commonwealth include the following: (1) Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating or settling an action or proceeding. (2) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its interest holders or governors. (3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions. (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of securities of the association or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to the securities. (5) Selling through independent contractors. (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside of this Commonwealth before the orders become contracts. (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages or security interests in property. (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting or maintaining property so acquired. (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions. (10) Owning, without more, property. (11) Doing business in interstate or foreign commerce.Being an interest holder or governor of a foreign association that does business in this Commonwealth does not by itself constitute doing business in this Commonwealth.In general terms, any conduct more regular, systematic, or extensive than that described above constitutes doing business and requires the foreign association to register to do business.

I've been looking at listings daily and starting to learn what constitutes a good deal in my area.Question: when you get an agent, do they give you login info to the MLS?

The usury laws are a hodgepodge of Constitutional Amendments, legislative passed bills, codes, and rules rife with numerous arcane exceptions and exemptions.   

You'll get a really good idea of what constitutes an actual deal, because an experienced investor will not partner with you unless there's real money to be made.I wrote a post on my first deal and how I funded it through BP, and partnered with a GC on the rehab, putting very little of my own cash in the deal:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/522/topics/19...I wish you all the best Pete!

You might look into what constitutes as "sham transaction".

The selling of my house having an OO note , without an occupancy certification rider , was not a rental, and I actually lived in, all within a few months of the purchase does not constitute occupancy fraud, not by a stretch.

There are very few loans that put a time requirement on what constitutes an owner occupant. 

In California, we have an article in the state constitution that limits the annual increase to the inflation rate or 2% (whichever is less).

I would think that sweat equity and paying for repairs would constitute payment.

Is there a blanket exemption for members answering questions based on there own experience that nothing on here constitutes legal advice?