The confusion seems to stem around whether one should get "verified" as an accredited investor, which entails getting a certification letter from your own CPA, Attorney, or Registered Investment Advisor, or from a third party verification company, who reviews the investor's financial information and then "verifies" whether they meet the accredited investor definition above. 

If they are VERY professional, they will have their processes in writing as verification that policies are enforced equally and fairly by their entire staff.6.

Due to the increased equity I have in it I am ready to sell and move the profits into a more local investment opportunity (I work in CRE and often have the opportunity to invest in deals I am working on).An y suggestions for how I best value my property and what networks/professionals I should reach out to to sell?

Sounds like you haven't been on the phone with the seller and the lender and done a loan/terms verification.

Trust between a tenant and a landlord is peculiar topic.In my mind, the tenant must earn the trust of the landlord (through credit check, background check, verification of employment, verification of current residence, etc) before the landlord can trust the tenant with the landlord's property.The only thing the landlord owes the tenant is that the landlord will abide by the lease and federal/state/local laws.

Of those, some will lend the construction funds, and some will not.There are pretty much no standards in hard money lending, so ask each lender that you speak to, to clarify what they do.

In Colorado if it is remediated according to to state guidelines it does not have to be disclosed.

Yes, we pull credit, do employment verification, call individuals for rental history, check their criminal background, and have them list their debts (credit cards, cars, student loans, etc,)

He texted telling me not to go in the condo alone and he wanted to to be when I came, so I gave him a time I'd be there.

Hello BP,I am going to do this thread as a thank you to all the help I have recieved from others on this site, and I am hoping it will help others to see me go through this process.Intitial closing and lessons learned here : http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/153...Now for the rehab since I am now the owner of this 1960's 3 bed / 1.5 bath home.( I am hoping that the picture is rightside up as it is showing upside down currently as I am typing)This is a rough mock up of the layout of the house https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw4tlga09RSJN3hyU...And here are some initial pictures of the inside of the house.Living room (pictures are upside down again, if you open in a new window they are right side up though)KitchenDinning room (opposite of kitchen)Bedroom #1Full bath2nd bedroomhalf bath (jack and jill to bedroom 2 and 3)Bedroom 3 (master or at least biggest)Dinning room to living room with partial kitchenback of house with a shot of the covered porch.So that's how this project started, I went out to contractors with the following SOWhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw4tlga09RSJX0VBL...This was my first experience going to to bid for contractors and I saw the range of contractors from folks that were professional to those that well were not.