If they could easily raise capital, then they wouldn't need to pay these broker-dealers.

He had in fact not started the work, so it was easily rejected.  

That's why places have to cash flow enough to be a long term deal.My Dad's favorite saying was - Isn't it funny that the lucky people also happen to be the hardest working- he was an advocate that you make your own breaks through hard work and preparation so there is a pay off that comes from it and other people look at it later and think it came easily-LOL

Could he easily secure a lien on the property until it's sold?

Just so you know - you can leave/switch brokerages pretty easily so don't worry if you make a choice and then decided to go a different route too.

Assuming that we have to wait until 21st, it will take our PM's attorney 4 months to start another eviction process, which can easily take another 1.5 month.

They could easily 1031 into a simpler type of RE as a rental. 

You can easily loan money out at 10% using Realty Shares or like that if 10% is your goal.

I let my fantastic realtor  (Kate Tyler Hayes) know that I wasn't going to give up so easily on this deal. 

It's valued around 225K (actually 250K if it was fixed up really nice), and I'm easily getting rents around $2,200-$2,400/month.