I also had to hire an attorney and file unlawful retainer.

It shall be unlawful for any person or entity, directly or indirectly, to engage in or conduct, or to advertise or hold himself out as engaging in or conducting the business, or acting in the capacity, of a real estate broker or real estate salesperson within the state without first obtaining a license as such broker or salesperson, and be classed as an active licensee, as provided in this Chapter, unless he is exempted from obtaining a license as specified herein.C.

I know I digressed, but just an example on who gets to (re)write the law and turn the un-lawful into lawful, etc...

Any claim for any unlawful foreclosure falls on the lender.

Assume that a foreclosed upon borrower wins a case and shows that the foreclosure was unlawful.

Again though, I'm not looking for legal advice, but does anyone side with me on the fact that a double close would eliminate any of the reasons they sited for unlawful actions?

Mess up in your business, only business assets are generally at risk, I say generally because you could act with malice or perhaps gross negligence or unlawfully, let's say a fraudulent act, ill gotten gains can be traced to where ever they may lie....look at Madoff!

I'm not looking to do any unlawful!

I did talk to Khristi about the outcome, however I wanted to update it here.Two years after talking to the investigator I was summoned by the State of Florida in a law suit for unlawfully practicing real estate without a license.

Let's say a possible tenant found your home or apartment for rent and you did a background check on them and it comes back squeeky clean but you find out that they have legal problems such as divorce or they did an unlawful act and they are in litigation because of it.