I am interested in green building design and eco tourism as well as learning the ins and outs of the RE investment business.

The IRS could easily see this as a transaction by each of you designed to benefit yourself, and therefore disqualified to your respective IRA accounts. 

I currently work for an engineering firm designing building systems for commercial, retail, hospitality, education and healthcare markets.  

You can describe a deal in 2-3 pages, but a PPM is designed to communicate all the risks of investing in real estate and with you in order to avoid running afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  

This will include the rehab of and resale of properties in our designated market with a pre-determined time frame and ROI.

Software engineers tend to hate too much structure and planning (I've worked in/around software development for 20+ years).So, many features common in project management software are missing in Basecamp because philosophically the people behind it don't believe them to be necessary.  

(Usually designated by a "C" tacked onto the end of the district name, for example "R-4-C."

Dodd-Frank doesn't impact non-owner occupied properties and isn't designed to protect investors. 

Anyway, awesome news that another one of BP's own is going to be featured, Josh Dorkin had a three page spread recently and now your in line for a shot at being featured on TV.Just don't forget us little people, lol.

Or we do it when our specific conditions don't fall into the "normal" category, we can still propose a design that will work we just have to do more design calculations and "show our work" for the math behind it.The problem becomes not that we can't do it, but that every new item we propose has a level of scrutiny it undergoes before it will be approved.