You will need two years of your 1099 documented income to qualify for a loan as a 1099 employee, both years of taxes complete for them to formally pre-approve you most likely.You need to bank as much money as possible.

Otherwise many many many agents spend a lot of time and effort finding property and writing contracts only to find that the funds can't be transferred, or they don't have immediate access to the funds, or they need some kind of approval from 3-4-5th parties, or there are exchange restrictions, or 9000 other excuses.You probably need to find them a commercial broker who can handle whatever kind of investment they want to make. 

The idea is if banks were doing all the owner occ loans the cost to the buyer would go down by 5k to 15k per transaction depending on the price of the home  Plus approvals would happen faster and there would not be this intense need to solve the underwriters every little crazy question  I am sure you have run into this over the years..

Get pre approved first for conventional so you know if you can use that as an exit strategy but purchase with hard money.

The PMI gets higher as you step up from 85-90-95% LTC.So even if you can get approved for this, you need to ask yourself are you willing take on potentially years of cashflow loss, for the privilege of owning the property?

The REO bank had loan officers at the auction and approved a $180K mortgage. 

Many applicants just want to tell us their excuses over the phone, but if they won’t take thetime to put it in writing, we find they rarely end up being good tenants.UnderwritingTraditionally, landlords have only looked at the income of applicants and approved those having income equal tothree times the property rent.

Lenders will rarely approve a loan knowing the down payment funds is a loan.

do I now Request for Tenancy Approval (RTA) form so HUD could come inspect the property and starting collecting rent (assuming inspection is passed)?

As a Banker I usually get my customers approved for their construction financing and then offer a builder who we already have approved in that State/County.