So is this just as simple as showing how much the property makes or do they also look at personal debt to income, credit score, reserves etc as well.

Of course, that opens up a whole new can of worms RE the tax implications of having the in-laws live at below-market rents in one of our properties.  

RentRedi’s syndication marketing helped us secure a great tenant in under four days, including employment and landlord verification, as well as criminal, credit, banking, and eviction history checks.

If you are stuck on it, do not pay for a course and you better go for a grand slam out of the gate. 

Of course!

If you have equity and decent credit, a conventional Fannie Mae HomeStyle (or the Freddie Mac version) would likely be the better option instead of an FHA 203k loan (which will require a 3rd party HUD consultant to oversee the deal in addition to having the contractor involved). 

@Andrew Self there are attornies you can hire to resolve your credit issues.

Of course, live wherever you want, if you see that storms are becoming difficult, it is easier to sell one home and move.

Run credit and background checks, actually call the listed referrals, and ask for bank statements.

With land investing/flipping becoming more democratized/accessible  (so many landed courses, tools, resources etc), current prices/RE trends etc, is it still worth getting into land investing/flipping for a brand new RE investor ?