If you were licensed, then you can only give referral fees to other licensed individuals.

I am an IT professional and I am not looking to replace my day job, but I am hoping to increase my knowledge and find like-minded individuals in my area that I could possibly work with on some projects. 

I'm from Bluffton myself... always looking to connect with other like-minded individuals, so shoot me a line sometime!

By focusing on the student market, I'll have the ability to rent entire units to pre-determined groups, or rent on a per room basis with individual students.  

Was it purchased by a legal entity such as a corporation or partnership, or was it purchased by a group of individuals.  

But we now know LLC’s cannot obtain HELOCs, only individuals.

@Athol Dickson FCI wont board a note for an individual.  

From my experience, there are always going to be individuals who just want to see what kind of offer they can squeeze out of investors who are touting hard money for their houses.

I am Craig, I am an aspiring individual looking at real estate as one method to achieve certain life goals. 

@John Cameron  go to your profile page right below your name it says Realtyshares.comfurther below in small writing it says Seattleshares.comcould be a typo on your profile page.I started in HML in 1985 and Mentor with the master Jack Langer in Oakland. and I can 100% tell you that relationship with your borrowers is worth 2points all day long and borrowers are not going to jump ship for small % they turn the loans to quick and its about scale and time and knowing for sure you have a deal.And as you say many rehabbers are not that great businessmen and I can tell you any that are not great would never get by a prudent portals underwriting at least not RS Patch of land or REalty mogul all of how I am intimately familiar now there are some hac portals out there that made some major boo boos but no more .And SEC has NOTHING to do with the individual underwriting of a sponsors deal ... there is no uniform underwriting criteria a portal has to follow .. just like me as a HML there is no underwriting guideline I have to follow unless I am tagging the loans to my credit line at the bank and or using PPMS.. but when its our own cash we do what we want..