As that was happening, the illusions of large pool trades prompted some brokers to lie and misrepresent truths about their identity and the owner of the capital and the owner of the loans.

Because you have 100K in unsecured credit card debt and your FICO's in the crapper.A worse outcome, flat out identity or credit card theft.If you want to wholesale, you don't need any of this.You can read here and in books and learn a lot of the basics.

Some may be looking for easy access to your financial identity.

If it appears that The Consultant has disclosed (or has threatened to disclose) Information in violation of this Agreement, The Seller and/or the Buyer shall be entitled to an injunction to restrain the Consultant from disclosing, in whole or in part, such Information, or from providing any services to any party to whom such Information has been disclosed or may be disclosed, notwithstanding that this Agreement is not exclusive to the Seller and or the Buyer, and the Consultant shall be allowed to use such confidential information under identical agreement with any other third party who may be interested in purchasing the Seller's and/or selling to the Buyer up to and until the time the Seller and/or the Buyer have entered into their agreement(s) to consummate a financial transaction.

What HAS changed is property values, thus if you buy a $700k house you will pay @ $7k per year, while your neighbor who purchased his (identical) home in 2008 might only be paying $3k. 

Odds are that your situations, W2s, bank accounts, etc. aren’t identical.

@Rich NgWe experienced an almost identical scenario a couple of years ago  - I bumped into the Vendor shortly after the building closed and learned our offer was not presented.  

Am I crazy or are they almost identical?

I could see another company stepping in to a variation of the Vacation Rental market, but not something that offers the identical product... hence why we see the deterioration of HomeAway, Flipkey, etc. 

I think $1000 is very realistic, as I know that an identical unit just rented for that three doors down.