Hello allMy brother and I have created a complicated mess with our real estate transactions over the past decade. 

I was wondering if there are any regulations regarding managing accredited investors money in real estate transactions…Say you wanted to pool four or five investors money together, though they are passively investing.

If the source of funds used to acquire the property was an unsecured loan or a loan secured by an asset other than the subject property (such as a HELOC secured by another property), the settlement statement for the refinance transaction must reflect that all cash-out proceeds be used to pay off or pay down, as applicable, the loan used to purchase the property.

Does him being a meth user with a brother in jail for illegal narcotic manufacturing help my cause?

I know that in a regular transaction it can be done, but since the contract is being assigned to me is this possible?

Hell, most people think it's illegal (in some places it is.

In select larger markets, some agents have the luxury of choosing residential vs commercial, buyer vs seller sides of transactions.

Some "REIs" will engineer transactions for failure for the tenant/buyer. 

Not an employee doing illegal side-work.....?

After doing this for 20 years and doing 3,000 transactions, I realized that most associations have too much control and have the power to increase fees when they please, making it very hard to determine what your actual cash flow will be long term.