Easy and cost effective, this is best for an attorney to draft and record.

The best protection of assets is to not have any assets to protect, and/or not engage in risky activity. 

On the outside of the envelope will be a paper that says something to the effect of "If you refer someone to me to rent a house, I will pay you a commission of 1/2 of the second weeks rent." 

That would effectively drop your down payment to 4%.This is likely only going to work with a small, local bank, and a seller who's pretty motivated and/or business savvy, though!

They claim that the wholesalers are not real buyers, only closing if they FIND the real buyer, therefore they are in effect selling the property on behalf of the seller.The wholesaler's argument is that they are PRINCIPALS in the transaction, exercising their right to withdraw from the contract if contingencies are not met, or by exercising the purchase option often now included in purchase contracts.  

If you engage your IRA in an active business such as flipping properties then income of an IRA generated by this activity will be subject to Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT), but again - the IRA will be responsible for this, not you personally. 

Most will have language to the effect that you cannot disclose or discuss any data or information that is deemed proprietary to the disclosing party and that which is not generally known to the public.If you want to talk numbers here on BP hypothetically, I think you would be fine since numbers are not "proprietary".

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