My question is If I go to to one branch of lets say JPmorgan, on 123 main street and i get denied, can I expect a different outcome in a different branch, say in 321 main street?

Did the article deliberately leave out the buy price for their Connecticut home?

In the past 10 years of renting, I have a CEO, a JP morgan analyst, high tech marking director, so on and so forth....They tend to stay 3-5 years, so I only had 3-4 tenants for the two properties combined in 10 years.....

Use the smarts you have acquired and be deliberate and careful.

I can take a hit, but the deception was so deliberate that it just makes me mad people do that.  

So in short: have solid checks that will most likely but not deliberately disqualify students. 

IRC § 1031 even addresses properties held for fewer than two years (only the periods during which the property was held are taken into account, unless it looks as though an individual is deliberately trying to “avoid the purpose” behind the code).The safe harbor, essentially, is something like that IF…1.

@Lakeesha Romero, you are deliberately ignoring every motivated Seller who "either wants cash or... don't want the hassle of being a landlord" (who comprise probably 90% of your available pool of motivated sellers), just so you can focus on finding 1 Seller per 1000 who might be talked into lease options?

Upon further research I discovered HUD took back the house from JP Morgan Chase after the owner died for the amount of 129,000 (when it was last purchased for 33k).

You will understand your business better and have complete control when you take the time to plan, invest and act in a deliberate and orderly manner.A side benefit from viewing your current employer as your investor is the greater satisfaction you can get from your current job.