There are several direct blanket lenders. 

You certainly 'can' work directly with the builder, but you will NOT save any money by doing so.

Hey David - Happy to point you in the right direction here and send over some material that can answer some baseline questions!

We refused the access and cancelled the remainder of our booking with Evolve5) Evolve is charging us $250 for cancel a contract they breached repeatedly, plus 50% fine on the terrible future bookings we cancelled in an effort to protect our property and reputation.6)Evolves' Success Team (Connor and Joel) both blamed Airbnb for Evolve's inability to vet or uphold any kind of standards in booking.7) Before this awful year trying to work with Evolve on our new TN property we worked with VRBO and Airbnb directly for our other properties for 8 years.

We used to do a ton of them but just went direct to the fund model so investors are tied to a portfolio of loans vs. one loan

I always have applications on a table that can be freely taken, however, I have already sized up the potential tenant at the showing and ask them directly how their credit is and anything else appropriate that is important to me.  

I quit my w2 cause I hit the .01% of success in it-- created small businesses then failed/succeeded on those.

Our small dog likes to run along the fence and yap non-stop when she hears the neighbor dogs in the back yard (it's a solid fence and she can't see them, but she hears them and freaks out).

So instead I put together an inexpensive mentoring program where my students have direct one on one access to me weekly.

If you are planning to contact sellers directly, Deal Machine is very good and very economical in pricing.