Likely you will be turned down for a while until you have a decent track record.

The best thing to do is to join your local real estate investors organization.

I am assuming from what you wrote that he has already organized a bank loan for the development and is looking for investors to meet the extra cash requirements?

From an SEO standpoint an external blog does almost nothing other than potentially offer some back-links.So moving the blog to an external site might work well for people that do not have a website or do not need/want to improve their organic search rankings.But in my case that is a large portion of why I have a blog.

Is there some kind property track record database for properties?

I do believe that belonging to a professional organization is vital to any business.

The same is true for criminal record.

I wanted to know what are other people charging for selling preforcloser records to companies?

If you are using a conventional loan to purchase, the bank will require a title policy.If you are purchasing on a lease/option or land contract, you will want to record a memorandum of lease, lease/purchase, or if it's a land contract, you will want to record some sort of memorandum referencing the land contract that will cloud the title in the future (to your benefit).

You need to report them to the National Association of Credit Services Organizations.