But that's me.To answer your question, I'm not in the business of recycling dirty money but I think it's pretty well known and established the the proceeds for criminality and the drug trade is invested in all sort of business, especially real estate.

It seems often that people will dwell on books, articles, podcasts and other sources and really just need a bit of personal motivation by peers to get out there and take that risk to start gaining those Street Smarts. 

I’d rather they just pause distributions and pick back up once the “economic conditions” are sorted out.

Do I need any sort of license or anything to manage my own properties?

Everything is profit after that (sort of).

You'd have to be a builder to really reap any sort of profits from an area as such. 

Are you primarily motivated by the idea of ownership in the assets rather than someone else owning and managing it?

Keep in mind a fulfillment company might rep  Tony Robbins and other motivational speakers and rep your wholesaling guru or fix and flip guru like Tarik and his X wife were doing.. 

Can I "cosign" for the loan to convince the bank to loan money to the builder (and if so require some sort of oversight from me for money to be dispersed to him?)? 

Sometimes starting a forecosure is what motivates a seller to redeem the tax lien.