I do make sure that I'm posting at least once a day across these platforms so my/our colleagues/followers know that I'm present.The key is visibility, engagement, and responsiveness.

***Otherwise, we've found that those companies that engage and help our members with their questions in areas where you have expertise, tend to get a good amount of business as a result from simply participating on our forums.

+1 to @Ned Carey's comments and I would add, the sooner you engage a lawyer the better...even before you negotiate too many terms.

The homes are modular meaning they will be dropped off and go through final assembly on site but it forgoes the GC's need to manage the build process for the duplexes themselves, this element (home construction) is the riskiest part of the build in our estimation with the greatest dollars allocation, by going modular we engage a highly experienced team that is contractually obligated to provide us with the units at a set price and provide a total of 8 years of roof to foundation warranty on the home.

When you invest in real estate, you engage in a secure venture.

Also, just ask why they think you should choose them, totally fair.Once you've chosen one, I'd say to make sure you stay engaged.  

.) - as long as you don't actively engage the Holdings Company in business activity in the state where the property is located, ie - the holdings company is just collecting the pass through income from the Property LLCs. 

Yet another "fascist" anti-flip, pro-lender banter about how anyone buying below market value is engaging in fraud.

Syndication is basically the joining of parties/individuals that are engaged in an enterprise of common interest.

As such, if a tax exempt entity like a self-directed IRA engages in such an activity on a regular or repeated basis, UBI taxation applies at pretty steep trust tax rates (max of 39.6%).The bottom line is that a self-directed IRA is not a vehicle to solve a situation you are facing personally.With $40K in an IRA, your best bet would be to act as a private lender to other investors.