To answer your question directly: a person should apply (whatever that means in your process) before being asked to screen.

Personally, I believe it's preferable to have stricter requirements and wait for a qualified tenant.

This person does the FHA 203k inspection, determines what's required, takes into account what you want done in addition to the FHA requirements, and develops a scope of work and cost estimate. 

Personally, I’ve been exploring opportunities where growth patterns and infrastructure expansion hint at future value increases.

Just to present an alternative point of view regarding California residents investing in STRs, I'd say the gambit still works and works well.For one thing, you still get to use the Section 263(a) tangible property regulations' de minimis rules, which probably mean you can immediately expense most of the furniture and fixtures in your STR.For another thing, while for your California return you won't be able to use bonus or accelerated depreciation for the personal property, you will still use shorter 5-year and 7-year lives for maybe 25% of the improvements.But the big thing: The federal tax bill is far, far bigger.

Any person can get one no matter the faith or beliefs.Originally posted by @Benjamin Piecenski:For those curious on how Islamic Financing works, here's a great, informative article that I found really interesting.  

Make sure to ask them questions like how many people they have helped house hack, or so on so you can get the right person to help

This post reflects my personal experiences and opinions, so always do your own research before making any final decisions.

To me personally as well I found it was more important for what I do to cultivate commerical bankers and those relationships so I could get access to bank rate capital and lots of it !!

Really the person that is going into the flipping game should know the market very well to do these comps on their own, and back it up by asking their trusted real estate agent/professional for confirmation.