Please post any relevant articles as well!

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Typically, these entities will ask for up-front fees in exchange for “counseling” services such as financial advice, negotiating payments or other solutions with the lender, or exploring the sale of the property.

There's a post here that I followed and I think there's also a BP article detailing this somewhere.

Make sure to utilize the BP podcast as well as the many books and articles written! 

I wasn't looking to increase my loan.I know there was an article or post that someone made with detailed answers on this, but I can't find it for the life of me!

Excellent article Ruth, thanks for sharing!   

Hi all,
My business partner, Max, and I are eager to begin our real estate investment journey. We are 25 year olds that became friends at Hamilton College and now have accumulated funds to where we are looking to bu...

Given the whole new Working-From-Home culture that Covid has given us, are any investors starting to explore the options of using FHA loans to purchase properties that they "may or may-not" live in, or live in for a year or so and move out later....

More than likely, he just needs to document the gift in his tax filing, and as long his total gifts are under the threshold, he'll pay no taxes on it (nor will you - until you sell it).Another option to explore besides gifting: you and he could set up a seller financed deal, where you pay him a small amount each month/year, which would keep his taxable income lower than if he accepted a lump sum payment.Double-check the above w/a CPA.