I am currently doing IT consulting for a great TV, cell phone, tablet, and Laptop maker :-) things are great right now, but I always felt/feel I'm not in full control of my paycheck or my future as an employee.

In all of the cases I've read about where a wholesaler has incurred a penalty (civil or criminal), there were clear violations that extended far beyond just marketing of a property (or assigning of a contract) where the marketer held equitable title in the property.Can you provide any case law of situations where someone had equitable title and was penalized specifically for marketing the property or assigning the contract?

Depends on your contract and where you are in it and what your contingencies were and when/if you released them.

However the treatment is within that group and usually doesn't extend or attach to other non-passive investments.The investor can join the LLC by giving capital in the form of debt.  

Here we do what is called a "map waiver" which basically is if your property meets certain criteria (one of which is underlying previously performed mapping) you can separate the lot without having to go through today's mapping requirement.If however they are already legally separated (with separate #s), then it may be even easier in that all you need to do is either get releases for the individual lots, or have the new lender not include them in the loan collateral description....though you may need to do some separate deeding to deed them to yourself apart from the lot with the home since the deed you have today probably lists all of the lots together. 

I was so motivated to get started that I was being very foolish in my expectations of the program and how far my budget could extend that if I could not close a deal within my first couple of months, I would probably lose my house.

I wouldnt worry too much , first go see if the line being extended is on the books to get done .

If they did that every time you were extended a loan, you stand to make $450...kinda of...but not really after you are gouged with interest. 

well, banks are actually " dropping" them. thats right, they are releasing their leins on them if they are in bad shape and the banks will never get any decent price out of them anyway, or, there is no way the bank will come even close to the loan value with a sale. so, they release their lein. the bank no longer owns it, is no longer responsible for anything that happens with it, and most importantly, they get another one off their books. what happens to these houses then?

We are entering into a crowd funding situation, and would like to move forward on extended work opportunities very soon.