The IRS generally opposes self-dealing and can assess sizable penalties on both the business entity and the individual involved in the transaction. 

Buying artificial cash flow is extremely expensive and counter productive to the intent of investing in income producing real-estate.How do you see this increasing your returns.

I'm referring to the "Small Balance" Freddie Mac loans linked below:http://www.freddiemac.com/multifamily/product/pdf/small_balance_loan.pdfThey have a 9 month principle+interest liquidity requirement. 

@Jessica GeislerTechnically, getting paid a fee for connecting two parties that leads to a transaction is called brokering.

Hence why industry wide 90% of agents fail & there are a ton of agents running around without any clue on how to transact real estate.A good agent is a successful agent.

I'm thinking Visio, LendingOne, FOAC, Ridge Lending Specialty products (I use Ridge) and similar.

The benefit to this was—I was able to purchase cheaply, and put more money towards some interesting renovations that boosted the home value, and made for some awesome perks for my future tenants. 

I have a condo flip that we have listed last week and we have an offer. the issue that I am going to run into is that all the properties in ghe complex, that have sold in the last 2 years were all distressed. 3 foreclosures, and another 1 was an arms length transaction that was aunt selling to niece.

Since I only had an agent for the first transaction, she stepped in and coordinated everything for the refinance.

Initially we went with this product and signed-up/paid for 12 months.