Essentially, when they send the leads, there is no reference to where they came from or the URL to the lead source, making it difficult on our end to track. 

@Jason Phu That's essentially the situation I imagined and trust me, things can go sideways fast.

I watched a video about house flipping, and he said to secure a property before a hard money and gap lender.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

I won't go into details here about what that means, but, would suggest that you check out their detailed videos that demonstrate how it works.4) It allows you to be able to immediately discover information about anyone whom you might be meeting with, before the meeting.

I did a YouTube video of it as well and was actually surprised how easy it was to complete compared to a typical government form

There are apps that can monitor a person's voice from video, recorded calls, or other sources, and then it can match the way you speak. 

You're correct, I am essentially paying them $795 for the privilege of finding THEM a deal.  

I essentially did this move in 2021-22, and kept my best properties debt free.

I can then refinance it at 75% and get a new $400k loan, essentially getting any trapped money out.