I didn't provide the name here, because I've called them out publicly on this site previously, and this particular forum is about wholesaling, not reviews of companies.  

They set up their own consulting business in the early 2000's and when I joined the firm we were consulting and engineering on many notable projects for Marmol Radziner, Livinghomes, Michelle Kaufmann and others; a number of which wound up on the cover of Dwell Magazine and other publications.

My Facebook was set to public so Im sure shes already done the typical Facebook stalk of my page.

Some who are contractors fix while the owner holds title and receives an amount as a construction fee, then sells with commissions, they earn the value added.However, buying and never touching a property, just flipping it for a huge profit can cause the prior owner to bring claims against you, someone got to someone and with a license you're seen as the expert in the room and under ethical structures in dealing in any manner with the public.

Close to down town in my city, new public transportation (trains) and new corporate business like Target, Walmart, Wendys and Lowes have new business in the same area.

The second - determining property value by gaining basic information on the building through the tax assessors websites, public recorders office, CAD, and beginning our comps so that we can have an estimated value to negotiate with once the owner has been located and has confirmed that they are indeed willing to sell.

The law states that Public housing landlords rents can not be capped or lowered because of shortfalls in the funding of the public housing Administrators.

Kevin Leary the {public} person is a little less admirable.

You can not do this at all.In order to hold yourself out to the public and collect a fee as a Mortgage Broker you need a license.  

Each state is different but typically a contractor, certainly a roofing contractor, must hold a state license in order to provide this type of service to the public.