He tried listing with a broker and couldn't sell it before.

Maybe rephrase your questions or a new thread and copy in @Chris Seveney  he is very experienced lender with capacity you dont want to waste time with a bunch of fake lenders. and you brokers or HML are not going to touch this loan thats a fact.

I was told if I could show a professional license such as a broker license I might get approved but the best option would be a Private Investigators license, otherwise, they didn't see any other path to approval for me or my company.

When you're responsible for customizing the layout you can get more creative and find extra space a builder missed out on because they wanted to include some type of flex space or amenity room or it just didn't fit their box.

Hostaway's lack of transparency in their pricing makes them pretty hard to recommend to anyone since these types of "custom" pricing schemes are often used as a means of upcharging new customers. 

For background I work in Capital Markets at a commercial real estate mortgage bank and I am a fully licensed real estate sales broker in NC.

However, the one constant in these emails is a request for the broker fee co-op and determining the offered co-op fee seems to be the motivation behind these emails.

Hi, I am an investor and mortgage broker in the Southern suburbs of Philadelphia.

I was using an insurance broker that helped break it down for me based on if I was planning to replace anything right away or wait. 

If you need to know a broker that can handle all of these situations, message me.