The last thing that comes to mind would be moving the funds to a rollover IRA and withdrawing them with help from your tax advisor or CPA to qualify for the first-time homebuyer exemption. 

First- Home heating tanks are exempt from federal regulation and usually exempt from state regulation unless they exceed a certain capacity (typically 1,000 to 2,000 gallons).

With Sec 8 tenants, you likely will never get paid for damages or unpaid rent that go past the deposit as their wages or income are often exempt from garnishment.

You can lookup the tax rate on the county assessor website - Make sure you are looking at or calculating the property tax WITHOUT any exemptions (since you’ll not get any as an investor). 

Any licensed California real estate broker could originate this loan to obtain the usury exemption.

It seems as though the property should be assessed with the homestead exemption for him, and the following should occur.1.

Why would Indiana be exempt from flooding?

Without going into details under the relatively new expanded definition of securities offerings, adopted by the SEC and almost all state securities regulatory agencies, if a financial investment is involved, and people putting up the money or having money at risk don’t have control of the decision making, then its a securities offering.All Securities offering must be registered with the SEC if they’re interstate offerings, or a state securities agency if they’re intra state offerings, unless they qualify for an exemption from registration.

I know none of this answers your question of 506(b) syndicators that I have had a good experience with, but I hope it does point out that these exemptions are typically not what is holding people back.The bigger question, and likely the one you are really getting at, how do you find the true operators, and not just the savvy marketer?  

(If you live in the property so that you can claim the Homestead Exemption, your property appraisal can "only" go up a max of 10% per year.