I’m in the Denver metro market and am considering testing my hand at flipping a house.

I put that as a contingency in the contract, "buyer's satisfactory review of rent roll, leases, ...." and I can back out for whatever reason.

That is your litmus test.

The lender usually pays for all repairs and rolls them into the loan. 

Testing out the forums to see if they are as active as everyone says! 

(you might have to pay some closing costs unless they can roll them into the FHA loan).[2] A lender who will lend to you.[3] Acceptable lender credit.But job #1 is to stabilize yourself indoors, then get a second job and save up some emergency money so this is less likely to happen to in the future.If you get  a second job at a resturant --maybe you can eat for free there.If you are depressed--get some counseling....some place charge a sliding scale on what you can afford.This is just a skim over view on this stuff...It will probably take you a couple of years to get your act together to where you are comfortable buying..so in the mean time study.Good Luck!

@Vincent S.Certifications do not matter much.Here is an older BP post with some questions to test the basic technical competence of real estate accountants:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

Definitely get your LLC rolling.

Sounds like you're testing out the BRRRR method.

This is probably the #1 question I’m asked by real estate investors and I’m honestly still testing a few different software.