I do not have experience in commercial real estate transactions.

Without knowing your transaction history I stand by what I said.

If you think about it in any industry less transparency and more friction in the transaction will increase fees/commission vs reducing them.I like the idea as an investor of having different agents, a team of agents maybe 3-4 bringing me deals, but I think less of that will happen now as all will have to have you sign some kind of agreement up front. 

In these markets, I would be worried about crime, activity of illegal immigrants, and such. 

This brings me to now, I've taken this approach and have used my own money in lending, but am also bringing in friends and family to take part in these transactions so they can earn way better returns than with CD's.

You will have a leg up on the language, transactions, inspections etc.  

Don't trust what ANYONE tells you about a market without solid data to back it up - this includes claims about how many transactions they've done or a single example (that's often from several years ago). 

This way, if someone feels rejected unfairly, you can show that your decision wasn’t based on any illegal discrimination, but on consistent standards applied to everyone.Alternatively... you could just ghost applicants but that's not always everyone's style lol 

I opened an account, a Solo 401K IRA and completed the transaction.

This phenomenon not only poses significant risks to property owners and managers but also threatens the integrity of rental transactions.