always get pre approved before you make offer, this will save you a lot of time and headache, shop around for the best rate ( i unfortunately did not do this rookie mistake) you can get your credit pulled up to 10 times and it will count as 1 inquiry, as long as its all within 30 days.

I believe your experience could shed light on a handful of inquiries I have.Your generous sharing of time and knowledge is greatly appreciated in advance.

Criminal history is useful if your local laws permit you to review it, but they may not.I also advise being aware of hard vs. soft inquiries.

My real estate agent over in Boise said he's getting more and more inquiries from conservative people living in Seattle and the Willamette Valley who are fed up with the growing extreme liberalism they see happening in these areas. 

Mine was a bit weird about an inquiry I made last year into buying an FHA property as an owner-occupant, even though we've done plenty of business together.I know where they're coming from, there are a lot of young people out there just trying to do things in real estate who have zero access to an extensive community like this that will tell you how bad an idea it is for a real estate investor to play cat and mouse with the feds in his first investment.

I get half-a-dozen inquiries a week from investors in my area ever so casually trying figure out whether I might be convinced to fix their houses cheap for them.Keep working on your businesses, people.

@Thalia Georgopoulos no idea on San Carlos condo conversation, but I’d call the city’s planning or building departments to make inquiries.

If so, that may improve the odds of not being denied, but too many new accounts or too many inquiries will drop your score in one aspect, but in a month or two, the increased credit from new accounts will decrease you percentage of credit used (unless you use too much of those available credits) which increases your credit score.  

I have an 810 credit score and want to shop around for the best rates but also do not want to have a number of hard inquiries on my credit.

When Jekyll answered - many hours after my inquiry - he blamed the issue on failure by his $10/mo listing syndication service.