Many of these companies will provide information about the property, including the name of the owner, address, loan amount owed, and additional loans outstanding.

Please save yourself time, money, and grief.

The deals that I am doing right now though, I am basically getting the land for free, and building on, refinancing all the cash out at the end, and keeping the rental for basically no money into it. 

I am super attracted to the idea because I love to fix and flip, and the emount of money to get started is so much less. 

@Drew Sygit well I was getting my money in that year and no time for your nonsense- I don’t need lick Karen!

Given 3% at time of close is paying interest to bank on that commission money.

I would find a good realtor, use Kiavi or wild-cat for lending, and good contractors through your realtor, and a local PM.Then you can re-fi using a DSCR loan and leave very little money in the deal and have it cashflow.

You can't ask someone for money, but also not disclose things because you don't trust them.

I hope everyone scammed here is able to recover at least some money; however the subject “guru” appears to be quite adept at dodging responsibility and consequences.  

He ended up having to pay back all the extra money to the tenants AND pay back all the money S8 paid for rent since the beginning of their tenancy.