Once approved, your business can promptly begin running soft credit pulls on clients.For more detailed information, you can refer to Soft Pull Solutions' guide on setting up business credit report access.

In your experience, how quickly do the insurance companies approve these for the family?

What exactly would make a city board approve non-affordable (i.e. not Section 8)  apartments?

I got pre-approved by my previous lender and by another lender.

Ask for a "Pre-Underwrite" this is where the bank underwrites the file and give you a "Loan Commitment" instead of a generic "Pre-approval" letter.

Without all approvals and all lender required diligence they are often reluctant to finance land.

Or you can try and lease option it, but be sure to mentor your tenant all the way to get pre-approved, otherwise you have an 80% chnace they won't be able to buy it. 

Credit score does matter but they will lend on a per property basis out of your available LOC once they approve a line...again mostly based on your available cash and credit score.

If they approve it, you can do it.

Your engineer should be able to approve some options to fix, then have companies quote to the engineers specs.