I'm really not trying to get into a pissing match, but the companies I listed earlier have much larger legal budgets than I do certainly and I'm absolutely certain they would not allow my company to originate loans that were illegal. 

When you’re hiring a bookkeeper, you want to make sure that they’re availability and business model match what you need.

I'm guessing whatever skills/resources a beginner has will need to match up nicely to a more experienced partner. 

We would also like the agreement to allow for the broker to syndicate out the raise, where they would be able to achieve a portion of the fixed rate of the promote if = their ‘term sheet’ matched our requirements, and the ultimate investors term sheet was less then the syndicated term sheet. 

Use a service (my favorite is Offers2Owners) and send a professional 2 page blind offer.I would also scale quickly and pull a list of homes that match your acq criteria and mail to all of them instead of driving for dollars.

I'm looking to pick up two 8-12 unit buildings this year, so I plugged in some criteria that matched that into a PropertyRadar search and got back a list of ~1000 buildings, along with taxpayer data, in RI.Is it worth calling all of them and seeing if any are willing to sell?

You should know tons of people moving, so just have to match them up with realtors who will help them either where you live or where they're going or both and earn a referral fee.

@Hilary Graves I would remove the turf and make a stone solid surface that matches the stone on the house.

If neither of you have much experience in designing then it will show when you try and put together cabinets and tile that don't necessarily match.

Keep in mind employer matches and contributions from an employer to a SEP are traditional contributions.