IE a national bank you have an existing relationship with, a smaller local bank or credit union, etc?

They do national eviction searches as part of their rental background check, and they do a criminal and credit check, too.

You're in a horribly inflated market compared with the rest of the nation and would be better off looking outside of Seattle as a beginner.  

I heard the National Bank was good also.

interested in rehab and sell in denver area and buy and hold nationally

Nationally, home prices rose by 5.6 percent during this period.

While most Net Zero buildings are energy efficient, perhaps even highly so in comparison to minimum building code requirements, there is nothing requiring them to anywhere new the efficiency level of a Passivhaus   .... this is why you will see odd things like warehouses with large rooftop solar installations being able to claim Net Zero.On the other hand, Passivhaus sets three metrics which a building must meet to be certified as Passivhaus compliant:  The building must have a heating and cooling demand of not more than 15 kWh/m2 (4,755 BTU/sq ft; 5.017 MJ/sq ft) per year  and a peak heat load of 10 W/m2.Total primary energy consumption (energy for heating, hot water and electricity) must not be more than 120 kWh/m2 (38,040 BTU/sq ft; 40.13 MJ/sq ft) per yearThe building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the house volume per hour (n50 ≤ 0.6 / hour) at 50 Pa (0.0073 psi) as tested by a blower door.Ironically, the research and pilot projects which fuelled what eventually became the Passivhaus standard was carried out in Saskatchewan as a National Research Council (NRC) project in the 1970s (the house is still in use today) and a similar project (Minnesota?)

Just make the terms reasonable, going back to the potential things-going-sour bit, a judge will not side with you if the terms include a 2,000% interest rate :-).On a separate BiggerPockets podcast, I vaguely recall a mortgage officer from Texas saying private investors can run up to 5 mortgages nationally without any license.Hope this helps.

Of course, interest rates did go down but there still was a signficant difference when working with a credit union vs a national bank. 

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