@Jim Froehlich The whole mantra of "find a good deal and the money will follow" is either said by newbies (because they read something online) or gurus who want you to pony up the cash to buy their program. 

Which means, if your RI business partner is going to be paying the mortgage, you should have some way of periodically checking that the payments are actually being made on time (for example, online access to the account if it's an institutional lender).After all, regardless of whether it shows up on your credit report, you'll likely be personally guaranteeing the whole amount of the loan which means if your business partner dies or walks away, you could be responsible for the entire loan.

Look up their online reviews, what area they specialize etc... in most states you need to work under the supervision of a Broker for a specified time frame before you can take your brokers exam and open your own brokerage

Investors harp on numbers and create rules, etc. etc....you see huge forums and social platforms like BP, but they are all based on the wrong thing.

When I went to buy a new tank from the orange store online, I discovered that this is very common with this tank.

Part one would be to create an online training course on udemy or your own website so you can teach people at scale what you learned.

It depends on specifics, and it's not for an online forum.

Do you have them online or email them out?

In the interim, while we learn more, I was thinking about just using the funds as an accredited investor in a crowdfunded commercial real estate platform. 

When we looked for online rent payment, it was the only one that also provided an accounting system.