Be sure and read @Avery Carl's book, Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth, published by BP. 

For example did they publish timely?  

I published an 11-part series on all about DSCR Loans here on BiggerPockets in case you haven't seen them yet - should be very helpful hopefully!

Along with Shannon, I recommend reading 30-Day Stay by Zeona McIntyre and Sarah Weaver, published by BiggerPockets.

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Since a mechanic is an expert at repairing autos and not playing Nostradamus and predicting exact future, they use an industry accepted, published, estimation table to predict the appropriate billable time for said repair, known as book hours. 

I published a listing on zillow rental manager and I got a text inquiry within a minute which seemed odd to me.

Hard Money Lenders don't publish all of their requirements upfront. 

There's a great book called Every Landlord's Legal Guide published by NOLO that will give you some great basic advice on how the process works, you may want to buy that.