Attack the party receiving the funds w/o investigating why they are charging as much as they do. 

FCRA forces landlords to seek investigation that has unreasonable costs and rules.

He's been sued before for defrauding investors (in which he won the lawsuit), and according to some insiders he's currently under investigation again.

The Agency’s investigations are complaint driven, so we rely heavily on the public, and our licensees to bring these individuals to our attention.

The way I got into Real Estate investing was by doing A LOT of research and investigating.

My property research has also been primarily limited to MLS listings as I haven't yet investigated other acquisition methods.I'm finding the market is picking up steam.

You can investigate into it yourself (I believe IRA has tons of info on their website)  or, if you want to save money and possibly avoid making mistakes, there is a number of specialists/companies in US who have systems in place to have your corporate credit ready for borrowing in as little as 1 year.

Depending on the context, it might be wise to obtain and Phase I Environmental Report from a local qualified  engineering firm that does such investigations and reports.  

The difficulty from what I see is that these sorts of scams are mostly small and local police are ill equipped to investigate and prosecute especially since most of the criminals are not local.

They have been doing this for a couple of years now and soon they will be investigated for unethical and overhyped promises of crazy returns especially when investors cannot cash out like a couple of people I know who are now stuck and cannot get over $500,000 invested there and have had zero returns.