He has already submitted an application through Zillow, and we have the contact number of his current home manager.Please let me know if it's still a good idea to ask the potential tenant for a recommendation letter from their current landlord, or if calling the manager would suffice.By the way, what should we do if the tenant has simply provided a friend’s number, and the friend pretends to be the landlord or property manager, or if he just make fake letter?

Retail Agent's have milked FHA buyers for personal gain for a loooong time, and that's 99% of the reason for the game of pretending to give a dang, they were an easy commission check. 

They are getting beat up in the forums here.However, I wonder if their investors, though angry now, will in time greatly prefer this approach to the extend and pretend approach of those raising rescue preferred equity, or those calling more capital on deals that have little to no equity in them, even after the call. 

I disagree, but let’s pretend you believe that.

Yep, gurus pretending they understand the statutes of all 50 states is what is causing this nonsense.

I have seen these terrible scams they are running now that a lot of people have so much equity in there home but after Covid I’d imagine many people have credit issues but these company pretend like they are giving you access to equity in your home but they are actually buying your home and renting it back to you.

The initial training is a 12 week program where each new investor will be told to set up an infrastructure of a legal entity, business cards, phone numbers, web pages and miscellanea, to pretend to be a real estate investor, because all this, will not really make anybody a real estate investor.

For instance, one "expert" I wasted my time/money on because he wasn't as informed/educated as he pretended to be.

I am going to pretend I did not read that forum, not because it is not sage advice, but because it interferes with my rose colored glasses. 

The home would likely rent for around $2,000 - $2,200.These are pretend numbers and you may find something that works, but I would be very careful with the math and ensure you account for all expenses, including vacancy, maintenance, property management, etc.