These loan programs are typically used for clients who are self employed & do not show enough income on their tax returns to qualify for a regular mortgage. 

If you are self employed you'll need two years of tax returns showing your income (from the same business activity) to get a loan.

These are outstanding life skills that you can employ for the rest of your life and the longer the period of time that you have to use them, the further the compounding effects will help you to go.This type of initial home-buying strategy can and does lead to further opportunities to grow and achieve further benefits besides those already mentioned.

Would you recommend that we run them through a screening process (background check, credit check, employment check, et cetera)?

Population is 9,500 and Amazon employed 1,800 people for a distribution center. 

He is amazing and he was referred by a friend who has employed him for thirty plus years.

It is the same as having a W2 job and your employer directly depositing your paycheck.  

You should have seen her bank statement, ID, called the employer's number listed in their  website, seen old apartment to check out the story.

This is a guy who had quit traditional employment in his 20s and has spent his life traveling around Southern CA, Vegas, Hawaii, and Southern CO doing real estate deals for fun while building a multi-million dollar portfolio (that's definitely someone I want to learn from!).

Beware self-employment tax)This seems like a good idea, but be careful about how you do it.