It’s doable, but very time consuming and takes some real personal skills to let sub contractors know what you expect of them and the quality of job they do.

Personally, it's marginal at best for a house hack.

He said he wanted to meet in person first.

I'm personally always worried about tenants trying to damage the property out of spite so hoping everything went smooth on that end.

I contacted the bank and they told me the person needs to go through the regular qualifying process such as income, credit core, employment history, etc.

Once under contract on a fixer upper, the FIRST person to enter that property with you is the 203k consultant.

I do not know how they are handling new customers verse the Midland existing customers.Regarding the customer service it seems the people I dealt with are still employed and only my "personal rep" as it were, was promoted and another took her place.

Completely agree and wouldn't normally purchase a rental in these markets personally.  

Melanie, as much as I understand where you're at with this, I would have to disagree based on personal experience.

Then I have still have to pay the person who was acting as a host even though no one came.