Long story short, he got very defensive, was short with me, and said he can say anything due to fair housing laws.  

@Joshua Dorkin is there any new BP conference planned?

I don't know where to find these Hedge Funds that sell smaller pools off. finding others in my local area that I can talk toLastly, I am looking to go to some of the conferences, but can't make the one in late April through PaperSource.

Buyers get defensive when brokers tell them what the market is doing.

We may be out of town that weekend in Peoria for a conference.

If the buyers say forget it and get defensive they are usually hiding something or feel they shouldn't have to go through those steps.   

I know you want to defend the unlicensed brokers...but there is really NO defense.

I facilitated this deal completely via phone and emails while I was in Las Vegas for a "conference", lol.

This is another line of defense. 

The Attorney advised against because we have a good system in place to maintain our properties so we don't allow room for gross negligence, we have property management with E&O insurance as an extra layer of defense and had our lease agreement reviewed by an attorney and then our own insurance umbrella to catch everything else.