If you answer the phone and there is an uncomfortably long pause before someone talks, it's a machine dialed number and simply hang up and block the number.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Hang in there. 

Local meet ups, facebook groups, anywhere hosts are hanging out join them.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Where any broker will take you since you give them a cut from your commission or pay a fee per transaction.Yes, you do need to hang your license under a mortgage company if you are an MLO.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Again, all answers that might be better answered in private.You are correct that a lot of lenders just don't understand how we work as investors but that's why some of us hang out here. 

Low hanging bad apples.  

I am trying to get a good hang of the rehab costs since I’m new to the are (from Dallas).