Most will require basic documentation such as a complete loan application, ID, Entity Docs, and 3rd party contact information.

Sharing understandings and rules on guests, cleanliness, chores, pets, drinking, drugs, boundaries, house identity, conflict resolution, communication platforms, etc.

I get having a driver's license to verify identity, but recording your head turning like a mug shot is a little much. 

It will be an identical home to the one I’m currently building, and I expect to need no more than $160K in financing.I’m not looking to overextend myself by taking on too much debt, but I want to make sure I’m approaching this in the right way. 

Waste of time, huge room for error and zero reason for a customer to do this.....any Contractor worth his salt will have better pricing/quality/selection on the big stuff and will have guys on his crew that can do those dreaded 'parts runs' for the little stuff. 

They are a platform that has no identity and doesn't really know what they are doing or who they are serving.

Here's a https://www.irs.gov/businesses/cost-segregation-audit-technique-guide-chapter-4-principal-elements-of-a-quality-cost-segregation-study-and-report to the IRS website noting specific items that are included in the cost segregation study report. hmm, that website is a 404 error.  

@Philip Beckwith, I disagree with some who think this should only be attempted for larger gross errors and also that you need to hire a company to do it.

I bought the book also & the link leading me to Biggerpockets does not work either & gives me the same error!

Stuart - we do not identity check the people who are signing up to post to the forums.