At least here in northern NJ, the roles of the attorney and the Realtor overlap but we are not interchangeable.You should probably also figure out if your State requires an attorney for a real estate transaction.I hope this helps.

The timing of accepting an offer and of the finalization of the Heloc are going to be nearly overlapping.

How it is distributed within the group will be subject to the operating agreement put in place at formation.It can be a very powerful play and the efficacy of it will largely be determined by the honesty, skill, and overlapping visions of the participants, coupled with the clarity of the Operating Agreement or JV agreement.

They require two different skill sets, some of which overlap, but many of which don't.2) There are at least several dozen niche areas of real estate investing and agents. 

Coproration) and not have overlapping (or 'overloaded' is the term I recall) terms (hence managers vs. officers) where different Chapters of the law were applied.The above applied to NC... so your mileage may vary elsewhere.

There is a lot of overhead in all of this relative to what I have seen thus far from iFunding, but admittedly I don't have all of iFunding's documents yet because I am not sure I want to sign their NDA due to some overlap in us using some of the same securities attorneys they do possibly.From the promoter side all of the sites I have interacted with so far are lawyered up pretty heavily; presumably to limit their liability with the uncertainty surrounding this new industry.The bar of 50 investors was pretty easy for us to pass on Fundrise's site.

Just beware of turf issues and overlapping non-profit services, go with the largest one that has a broad reach.

There is some overlap in attendance, but in general there are two different groups of people, because of the two different markets.

To add, there are many segments that overlap.

Every county is different, in some markets that overlap several counties they can be totally different and you just have to learn what the software will do in the county you are looking.