Greetings, First and foremost, I want to thank the BiggerPocket community for being so welcoming already.

Don't just read the lease!

I also keep track of the date payments are made.

Even if they stopped reporting your payments the history would be there. 

Just curious if you moved forward on this project.

As lenders, well issue a prequal/preapproval letter if we've analyzed your income, assets (bank and brokerage statements to establish that you have the liquidity to afford the down payment, closing costs, and reserves), review credit of the guarantors, review the relevant experience to ensure that we're not throwing our money away on newbies that are wandering around in the dark, and have put together a reasonable plan of attack for the project.

This was probably a year ago, but Before going onto their website I even called and spoke to a worker at that office who directed me to the category where I would find them… the category was filled of all kinds of irrelevant documents, thousands of them.

Research shows that the more experienced home buyers have a longer and generally more specific list of demands than first-time home buyers.If our buyer does not have a home tour checklist, I give them a version that I have used for years (I did not create it, another investor shared it with me and I have used it). 

Closing costs will be 1-1.5% of the purchase price.

I just know that when we had french drains installed around the house foundation and redid all the drainage systems in the yard they were 4' deep and they made sure that the slope was sufficient for the task.