Call the local municipality where your rental property is located and ask if they have a list of certified local contractors or see the attached link for a list of NJ Certified Lead Evaluators...https://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/codes/publications/pdf_lead...

It's crucial to discuss how each lender evaluates income and experience, as their criteria can differ.

Help me evaluate this off market deal that's non-traditional.

Then I would do a self evaluation to determine what kind of "work" I want to do in the real estate investing process.

I'm also a newbie and not confident in evaluating projects and borrowers, so would prefer to partner and diversify.I'm looking at debt funds at crowd funders like Fundrise, as well as business development (BDC) ETFs like Ares, Blue Owl, Golub.

What I noticed was the ones who invested just post GR were completely behind the mark, the one's who've been in it for longer were great at anticipation.I've asked all for updated pro formas and seeing how they evaluate the headwinds this time off updated rates, insurances, taxes, etc., If it's a reasonable, the capital call in my opinion is less of an issue than folding like a lawn chair. 

When interviewing brokers, you can confirm the technology brokers offer for market research and property evaluation.

We are using commercial multi-family evaluations for the final project.

If you think you know it all, you should probably do it all yourself (As in don't even consider buying turnkey)If you don't trust us, we don't want you to invest with us (We can't help those that don't trust us)Those are the two main reasons why we had to say, "No" to so many of you (I'm sorry)Another biggy is that we only work with CASH BUYERS.With all that said, I'm writing to you today to let you know that our investor evaluation criteria will become even more stringent than it is now in the very near future. 

It can be a difficult program depending on your life circumstances so you have to evaluate where you are in life and determine if this would be the best case scenario for you.