Think of this as your "due diligence" if you need to spend a few bucks to talk with a local real estate attorney (although some of them do give free initial consultations).https://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/regulatory/unlicensed-practice-of-real-estate.html

Or better yet, also search names and message body too?

Don't use excel to manage all leads. it's possible, yes. but you're going to run into issues and ain't no body got time for issues!

As the others here mentioned before, it's critical to check with the local planning commission and city/county governing bodies.  

But the weird thing is no body knows who pays taxes, even on record the seller said; "yeah I was confused about that for the past 10-15 years"

https://realestateguysradio.com/events/how-to-rais...I've gone multiple times to keep abreast of regulatory changes, but many people go to not just to learn how syndication works, but also how to vet sponsors and how to be an effective passive partner in these types of projects.   

This is typically the case here in the Bay Area, too.Typing Alexandria Louisiana in the body of a post so that locals to OP, hopefully, can chime in and tell us how it is in LA.

But you've got to practice and get your body language down. 

I can close 7-10 FNMA loans (& I work with some damn complicated scenarios from our fellow BP members) in the same amount of time invested as one HML, and in the current regulatory environment it's not like it's lawful for me to get paid 7x-10x as much for that one HML, soooo......Big picture it's actually a bit of a problem.

I recently got a copy of Maryland (princes George’s County) it’s every complicated and I have not clue on what I’m looking for......does anybody body here from Maryland know how to read it...... if so please share some knowledge......