For preferred jumbo investor lending programs check in with @Joseph Chiofalo to help with baseline structuring and a Pre Approval vs PreQual which has helped several of my luxury buyers win competitive offerings.

sounds like a lot of smaller dollars  IE under 100k investors.. so usually not worth litigating over money wise and then someone who gets over his ski tips .. never intended to end up with all these pissed off and wrong investors but once you Rob Peter to Pay Paul you rarely recover.. 

How does a new real estate investor find a pre-foreclosure deal?

Angela, refinancing your property at the current lower rate (Today's 15yr fixed purchase rate: 6.8% APR) can fund a down payment for another property, enhancing your portfolio. 

The extra interest is small and increases our APR by about 1%.To do this, our lending attorney provided custom clauses in our loan documents, including a deferred payment section, an interest-on-interest clause, a balloon payment disclosure, and a few others.

the more you could make it an emotional (unique niche place that stands out) decision and find a buyer attracted to that vs pure math, the better, I suppose.I'm thinking 'the right location' (and buyer) for this scheme is more like the "hobby second home" crowd, dedicated ski/vacation town, right on the beach, cabins, main amazing attraction right nearby, NOT any-old air bnb beachtown condo, though, overall.

I recently filled out a pre-approval application for a mortgage, however, the lender did a hard pull and told me they came back with no score.

Instead, if I have 12-month CDs yielding 4.5% and I receive from a financial institution a personal loan collateralized by the CDs, with 4.5%+2% APR, and I invest in a low risk asset yielding 8%, I am receiving 6% annualized yield instead of 4.5%. 

Are you buying it with a mortgage and can you provide a pre-approval?

But for a lot of younger family's a small community, starlit sky's, and the sound of nature are more important that constant sirens, Uber, dog spa's, and 100 different coffee shops or microbreweries.