@Colleen Prescott Real estate transactions are almost identical everywhere you go...with some nuances..but the process is largely the same.

I can 100% afford the monthly payments as they would be nearly identical to the rent I am paying now (although no bank cares about my ability to pay only my debt to income ratio).

A mentor will break them down, take away their independent identity, everything they think they know, then build them back up into a investor. 

I would however, verify the identity of each adult living in the unit, and get all of them on a new month to month lease.

Some lenders will be identical on rates and fees....then how do you decide who to use if the fees are the same? 

Or he tried to scam me for identity theft?

I’ve been doing a lot of homework on investing and become a landlord via house hacking and before I sit down to the table with the bank should I set up a corporate identity for protection?

I'm in nearly identical boat.  

However, we just bought an identical unit in the same complex for $25k less so we got a great deal, but the bank only let us have a 15 year mortgage on it as an investment so our monthly costs actually come out about the same.

Neighboring identical 4-unit buildings are leasing for $550-$650/mo so there’s a good chance I can slowly raise rents. 25% down conventional financing.