Find one in your  town certified since 2007 http://proadvisor.intuit.com/search/index-standalo...  

A loose plan in hand is better than a dozen frantic Google searches, trust me.

https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/study-reveals-....Not sure BP will allow that link to post, if not just google " 10000 saved using a broker vs direct lender" and you can find the article.On the flip side, there are some banks and credit unions that could offer products that they do not allow to be brokered.

Have fun with your search.

There are also some great YT vids on the topic, search "BiggerPockets house flipping" or something similar.

I’ve tried tru people search when I was D4D last week, and didn’t find a valid number out of the 20 houses I found 

I can't give away all my locales but it's not hard to find them if you search around and ask people.

If you read the reviews of some of these places on Google it's apparent the management is poor in many of them and maintenance and capex has probably been ignored for a long time.

Now that you have the correct terminology, you can search for lots of potential solutions. 

What I mean by that is when the appraiser goes out to the property to do the appraisal he’s going to search county records if they did any permits.