During that same amount of time, you could've invested $5,000 into a software business and scaled it up to $10k monthly recurring revenue or $100k a year in less than 6 months If you've got those skills, by all means use them.

I'm a midlevel healthcare professional with an interest in fix-and-flips and possibly buy and hold rentals with decent construction skills looking to start buying fix-and-flips and need all the advice and info I can get!

But if you have to lie to get deals, you really aren't bringing much in the way of knowledge or skill to the transaction anyway.Is it possible to avoid any actions that constitute unlicensed brokerage?  

Before you can be creative in your art, you must understand the art. 

But at the moment I would love to learn the art of whole selling to help me raise personal cash to fund my own deals.  

It was like art watching it get pounded out,  Investor, contractor, and banker doing what they do best.  

Coming to Bigger Pockets will strengthen your investment skills.

If hte HOA is the RSF and the Art Jury is the review committee then I feel your pain.  

Hawaii seems to be a rewarding market for those who have patience, dedication, and good people skills. 

I am a hands on, small time landlord doing about everything myself (but contracting out some skilled work)I find housing people worthwhile (and even profitable), but nobody would want a television show about it (think of a camera zooming in on me cleaning carpets or painting walls for hours....snooze)...In fact, I think if you do things right, you can prevent much of the drama (no building disasters or angry tenant confrontations) the staple material that would keep viewers riveted.My strengths would be in the day-to-day, nitty gritty details of small time landlording, especially for part-time landlord that holds down a day job.