Even if you go to the local NMLS site to look them up, there's no way you would know they are fraudulent if he is up to date with his membership dues etc.Its sad how intricate these folks with dubious intents are in plotting their game..Thanks for the counsel.

there's quite intricate relationship here.

CA is a disclosure state so most data is readily available, but I see no logic behind excluding MLS HUD1s, if they'll be favorable to you (just be sure they will be before you push for that)We had completely renovated our house in the year since we bought it and wanted an appraisal about 40% higher than our purchase price...I provided two pages of intricate detail about the improvements, and that seemed to help.  

Some sellers are not privy to the intricate details in real estate transactions and going in with a better strategy might fit your end goal more precisely.

You will start at the "ground floor" and learn every intricate detail that is required of a buy and hold investor.

I and other savvy experienced investors can read between the lines, but some can and will take your statements completely literally without having all the important intricate details which allows your strategy to work.Therefore, I want to point out that in any analysis of an income property, one must consider ALL of the expenses that eventually will take place over time and have a means for that one property's income to pay for it.

In many cases intricate systems were set up so as not to trigger lender awareness that a property sale took place.  

Can anyone provide some insight into how to prepare a presentation to investors, how to approach it once you've found a property and some of the intricate details they are looking for?  

Of course, things were much worse than initially thought and people raced to sell of the remainder of their equities and banks that invested heavily in these ABS's were facing huge losses...not only for them but also for the intricate network of other domestic and Eurodollar products that were derived from them.