And with that there is a known life cycle of "empires", and the final stage before collapse is, the age of entertainment.... 

If the deal collapses and I would lose everything, I'm out.

This seems very odd that a ceiling would collapse.

Or, you can play games with your job title and expose the agent's license to unlikely but possible scrutiny.Or, you can tie up sellers with options and find good ways to market properties yourself or even refer to an agent who does or doesn't compensate you.Honestly, KMP, getting your brokers license will not taint your deals or cause your world to collapse and will most likely make you much easier money than you will believe without jeopardizing the wholesale operation you have now.

Even if the structure is implemented/structured properly, if you don't follow the rules in maintaining the structure you risk having the IRS collapse the structure and taxing your retirement funds as if they were distributed to you (with penalties added for good measure.).  

Yes, it's collapsing.

.; a massive '08-style collapse in prices), as well as best-case dream scenarios...however, MOST of my projection models focus on fairly modest outcomes (such as 2-4% property appreciation, 2-4% rent growth, etc.).

There are several things you must do to keep a the DST from being pierced or having the Series structure collapse so that the court would treat all of the Series as one, instead of separate.

How about one of those collapsible rope-ladder type fire escapes?

Up until that point, the market was so unstoppable, a plan was borderline irrelevant.We set out to stabilize and sell, not knowing the world around us would soon be collapsing.