Yet they act like it is a private club of just friends and family.To be more to the point...Some are in a service role providing something to the public (RE agent, book seller, mortgage broker, home inspector, REO portfolio bird dog, what ever).

All the details are public so you should be able to find out what you want given what you asked.John Corey

Firstly, there are rehab loans for primary residences that allow for the purchase price + rehab costs + up to 6 months of mortgage payments during rehab + closing costs to be rolled into the loan amount (and an allowance of 6% seller concessions too)...As to your mortgage lady, she might; 1) not know, 2) not care, 3) not offer a rehab loan program that allows for these features (although highly unlikely).

Ask them what makes sense rather than depend on public forums.

Check the public press and Craigslist plus other things.

I've never actually used excel or anything before, assuming that would be the typical program for setting that up.

Check the public records to see if an address is listed for the lender.

He has lived in WA for some time now and is pretty active on some public forums.I have lived in OR at different points.

Only a small segment of the house buying public can even look.

Got tired of playing landlord, and realized the big money takes too long to get, so I started up a new style of investing.My background is really in programming, more specifically web based application programming with databases.