Real Estate Investment.
Basically buy houses for the appraised value OR asking price, which ever is lowest.
Do some mortgage magic (patent pending), "assign" the mortgage to a buyer who I won't qualify and charge said buyer a flat fee to get the mortgage assigned to him/her.
I'll make money off the asignment fee and that about it.
It's a little more detailed, but the friend I'm joining up with makes a lot more than I do now, and I make pretty good dough.