Our meetings are held in an open room with some chairs and tables and there is a screen for the presentation.

The rules prohibit the direct or indirect furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between a plan and a “disqualified person".

Anything before that is not documented is tough to go after and honestly only takes her standing in front of a judge "The chair rail was broken when I moved in....

In a startup I was involved in, I seen a 21 year old girl get involved with my CEO and tank the whole business because he made her director of Marketing with little or no experience.

Or maybe me sitting in a lawn chair while painters painted an empty unit tipped them off?

Today I attended a meeting where the Director of the Maryland Real Estate Commission commented on how they are becoming more viligent about flippers who fail to disclose material defects.  

@Dustin HavilandWhat you propose would not work.The IRS rules prohibit any direct or indirect benefit between a disqualified party and the plan.The key disqualified parties include:Plan holderTheir spouseParents, grandparents, etc.Children, grandchildren, etc.The spouse of a descendantAn entity such as a business or trust where one or more of the above have control via ownership or management authority.A self-directed IRA is not a means for you to derive any income other than in the future when you take distributions from the account.  

In the mentorship program they have a level called arm chair investing when they bring you deals and joint venture for a 65% profit split going to the investor and 35% to the mentorship group.

You will get all manner of quotes, depending on materials and other factors- will you have xray machines, do you need center run power /water (i.e. dentist office) or do you do day surgery (will require automated backup generators IIRC), are your clients physically disabled, do you need chair lift, if you change an old building do you have to make it ADA compliant. 

That seems to have faded out pretty quickly and the Meetup Chair was taken over by the Ann Arbor Meetup group.