Your problems were a level up from mine, in financial terms. 

You also need some business cards that have a couple things for you to write in manually like your phone number but not your cell phone number.Another thing you should consider, depending on your financial worthm, is to form some sort of corporation or a LLC,  Expect that most banks are against doing a loan that not in your name, even a transfer.  

If you are not doing it you do not understand the vast amount of information/protection it provides to your business. 

If the owner can't demonstrate financial hardship, a short sale won't be approved.  

Consult an asset protection attorney for more ideas and/or confirmation.2.

Hi, I need to obtain the building financials for a unit I am interested in purchasing but the management company is not allowed to release since the current owner is in default and will be going through a foreclosure at some point in the future.  

Will the bank need to look over my financials to see if i can do it or can i have the owner finance it until i flip the house?

I think it depends on your current financial situation and what strategies do you plan to go after? 

I believe I have pinpointed my biggest financial weakness as my vehicle.

Finally free, I vowed to never own another rental property again after the experience.Fast forward to early this spring (2016); I had the good fortune of borrow a little known book titled, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," from my good friend and proceeded to realize all of the things I had been doing wrong and how my financial philosophy was in need of some major retuning.