The whole "workers packing up and leaving" makes me think unlicensed day labor.

It would be: take classes, pass CO and national tests, pay to activate your license, join brokerage, pay to join MLS, then buy property.Easier route: ask agent you know and who likes you for unlicensed assistant MLS access, if all you want is MLS access.Let me know if you have any questions.

Here is the link that I found on the county web site, http://library.municode.com/HTML/16214/level2/TIT6BULI_CH6.12FEREMA.html#TIT6BULI_CH6.12FEREMA_6.12.982VAHO They must be looking for the annual $300 fee from unlicensed properties...and sales tax.

@Deborah Cavallaro Not to get into too much detail, but you can hire a designer (unlicensed architect) to prepare your design, they can coordinate with the structural engineer.

Your goals and story: I currently have a 1.3-acre parcel with a 2 bed 1.5 bath home that I built in 2013 as an unlicensed owner builder.

Call it $200k with a $25k contingency included.If you're not pulling permits, using unlicensed workers and working in C-/D/F neighborhoods, you can probably cut that number in half.

You have an unlicensed property manager who has completely lost control of your investment.

No wonder they are getting a bad name.70% of wholesalers are just bad, in my Market NYC they don't even exist here, New Yorkers don't do business with unlicensed agents per say.

@Eric Metz and others, the AREC has enforcement power against unlicensed persons as well as real estate agents.  

This is why most of these unlicensed brokers hide in the shadows.