For question 1, regarding finding others who could use your services, when you get MLS access you can search for REO listings, export the listing data with listing agent names to a spreadsheet, sort to determine the highest-volume REO listing agents, and contact them to offer your services.

HML  can be a great career  depending on the state you may or may not need an NMLS license ( if your going to do any volume) or like CA you can legally lend with a RE broker license.And of course there is a few ways to do it... you either have no leverage IE your own cash.Or a portion of leverage IE a credit facility with a bank ( Like I have) or Hundred % leverage by brokering other investors funds.But like anything RE related its not as easy as you make it out to be... loans go bad lenders lose on deals when their borrower goes TU  markets constrict causing loss's right now we are in a very nice lending period of rising values and Borrowers that have been trained to bring in CASH equity... prior to 08  it was common place in the industry to do all your HML based on LTV... and that led to massive loss's for lenders in the down turn both institutional and HML lost

If it were me and I wanted to go the latter route, I would look for someone who had a great reputation, that did a good amount of volume and that does basically the same rehab in every property not one-off renovations.

As lenders need more mortgage volume, average down payments start to drop," says Doug Lebda, founder and CEO of LendingTree.

Another few months lead time educating a buyer from the discovery period to the offer period.So can take 4 to 6 months from time they contact you but if you have a good pipeline the large checks give you years to decades of reserves.Right now transaction volume is high with low interest rates and sellers can sell at a cap that gives them a good equity gain.

All cross streets has very high traffic volume.

Brokerages that offer low fees to agents tend to be mills that do a volume game.

With that volume and timeframe, you are certainly going to have some tenants leave for various reasons.My rental turnover is very low, but it is still more than zero.

A freshly completed transaction is the single best data point an appraiser has to work with; especially right now with generally low transaction volumes in many markets.

I'm looking at increasing my deal volume by bringing in an outside investor for house flipping.