Will also need to have a smoke / co2 director and drywall for fire rating.

I've been interested in using my home as a short-term rental (STR) property so last week, after watching this video from James Carlson and Erin Spradlin, I called the Department of Planning and Zoning and spoke to the Director. 

Any insights if the direct or local lenders would consider differently?

No VA, FHA, USDA, HUD Direct or State Bond Money transactions.

I am the Managing Director with oversight for all SBL business, Sales and Operations. 

The agents who marketed the deal to us were a firm known as 'Property Direct America' and the director and contact is Danny Silver (he has now chosen to end communications with me as I have been pointing others to threads such as this).

We've got a director of the foreclosure data companies here:http://www.biggerpockets.com/pre-foreclosures.htmlI hope this helps you out.

Does that sound like a reasonable approach without direct contact, or is that to direct or personalized for a mass mailing type approach?

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This is a supply and demand game," David Browning, managing director of CBRE's Cleveland office, said in an interview late last year.