We do a lot of self employed loans and we can take your investment income in your pre approval.

Would it be beneficial to have a pre rehab appraisal to borrow the money for the rehab and then a post rehab appraisal to get the maximum amount of capital for the next property?

I have registered an LLC and incorporated business with contractor license.

I’m particularly interested in pre vs post Covid DST acquisitions, and how they have fared.

Congrats on your pre-retirement @Robin Smith ! 

Your the person who wants to sell and pre-qualifying your prospective buyers and yourself is really not a sound approach.

Personally I have never been a fan of pre-tax accounts (401Ks and IRAs) because I feel like they constrain my ability to invest in the assets I want, so another consideration you may have is to temporarily stop those investments to save faster for your house.

Yes I have been pre approved already.

Did you have to incorporate a special tenant screening process?

We chatted for almost an hour, he showed me around his place, and I got to know a bit about him—a really nice guy.Then, at another spot, I drove up just to look from the outside (since it was “showings for pre-approved buyers only”), but the seller came out, curious about what I was doing.