@Bacongo Sandou Cisse- thanks ...if you will need financing - make sure you can get pre approved  or have access to funds to use to buy  before you spend too much time looking for proeprties - thanks 

@Karl Kauper going to guess your current PMC:1) Is having too many tenant nonpayment issues for your likingAnd/or2) Refusing to share their background checks with you, so you can make your own approval decisions to address #1 above.Several factors may be at play here that you may want to consider before being trigger-happy:1) For several legal and contractual reasons, it's pretty much NOT possible for a PMC to share background checks with an owner. 2) What Class of property do you own?

I am finally looking to get pre-approved.

Charlie, you are correct on RESPA as Federal regulation, but finder's fee for unlicensed individuals in real estate is state by state regulation - In California, for example as long as it is diclosed this is legal - "In California, a “finder’s exception,” allowing an unlicensed person to be compensated for introducing parties to a real estate transaction, has been judicially approved since 1923.

i have plans at the city that are 2-3 weeks from approval. i'm a licensed GC and the house is going to be a 3/2 1100 sqft with comps in the 260's. for a construction id only need 100-110k, but the more i call banks the more im finding out that even 100-110k is "too small" of a loan.

Hello all, newbie here with Pre approval letter and currently researching cities for investment properties. 

I'm working on the same loan approval now.

However many times they won't tell you that, they'll just deny coverage and act like they fought so hard to get it approved but the coverage is just not there (when it certainly is).A good public adjuster will more than pay for their fee with the extra $$ they'll get you.

Other buyers were not willing to deal with the sometimes frustrating process of short sales and the associated lienholder approval process, so he was able to come out on top due to his patience and insistence on buying based on the numbers.

You should screen and approve every occupant.