I would even check out Scotsman Guide if you are looking for a lender makes you more comfortable since they would have a marketing budget to advertise with them; helps to confirm they are a legitimate lender.  

The government legitimately shut down their ability to go to work.

Like many things wholesaling started with a legitimate purpose and was practiced by knowledgeable, successful, and established practitioners who (1) provided liquidity to an illiquid market (2) offered to buy properties needing too much work to be financed and (3) offered to make a market in low price properties or in low income areas where brokers didn’t want to practice.  

I'm not familiar with the area, but here are some things to look into to determine if it will be better for STR, LTR, or neither.STR:- Amenities, transportation, night life, popular tourist attractions, stadiums/concert venues, beaches, museums, can the home be turned into something unique, you will need to furnishLTR:- Amenities, work/job locations, schools, wage increasing over time, transportation, low crime rate, everything on the STR list, you will most likely not need to furnishI hope this stuff helped!

@Ray Williams Lots of first time "investors" here trying to get in the game legitimately wanting to live there and dreaming of moving up later, so its a little skewed but yeah, you are not wrong :)

Organizer is Roger.Texas Tuesday DFW Real Estate Mastermind- https://ttdfwrem.com/ Has met 1st or 2nd Tuesday of the month Venue has changed cities and locations several times, but seems to be currently meeting in Ft.

Either have a legitimate PM or don't have one at all.

There's a lot of aging neighborhoods out here, and a lot of these new retail and entertainment venues are being built in close proximity to these neighborhoods.

Probably not every self-employed person is able to do this, but I would always offer a recent statement from all my accounts to show that I had ample funds in reserve to pay rent even if my business went belly up.As a self-employed guy myself, I would happily rent to another self-employed person as long as they proved they had a legitimate business because, in many cases, the self-employed are far more resilient financially than many folks with traditional jobs.Think about it.

I am now trying to find out if they are legitimate.