I'm happy to refer you to a company that helped setup mine.

Ask your mortgage company.

Then, I spoke with several acquisition managers with very limited knowledge on how to evaluate a deal but this time, the company they were working for was sued by multiple homeowners for fraud.

Hi Lynette, I'm a Managing Partner at a company that does Full-scale flipping, lending, development, and portfolio acquisition, amongst other things! 

Their return is better than most note companies.  

I am familiar with being licensed thru nmls but never heard of any other type of certification  means nothing.. its just a private company non accredited.. 

In Columbus, you can still find the 1% rule and there's amazing appreciation potential due to how much population growth, job growth, and companies moving/developing there (recently Anduril just announced another 4,000 jobs coming to Columbus Ohio on top of Intel, Google, Amazon, FB, Nationwide, Ohio State University, etc.).

I, too, went online today and found a bunch of scam warnings about the company.

These areas have affordable entry points, diverse housing stock, and steady demand.

VA company?