Many agents are part-timers, and you need to weed those out. 

I suspect this lender was just one of the hundreds of crooks out there doing teh advance feescam.If your interested watch the American Greed episode on Remington financial they do a deep dive into these companies..

Did they check to obituaries?

This is all very very helpful!

Very helpful and valuable insight. 

and why are they needed in this deal?

We take ID's for all guests (in a website called Chekin) so would have documentation the booking guest is above 21.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

You can also check their reviews online at Google, Facebook, or Yelp.

Hello, my name is Trevor and I’ve recently took in the interest of wholesaling properties, I have never networked before so I’d like to make friends and potential clients in which we can both help eachother out some.