The pre-qualification process is a great point.

If you purchased the property with cash within the past 6 months, I could offer you up to 80% of whatever you paid for the property in a 30-year fixed-rate rental loan (DSCR), assuming all qualifications are met.

The self-qualification process weeds out a lot of phone calls from people just wanting to know how much the rent is, how big the property is, etc. 

It seems to me that the hard money lenders base much of their qualifications (most home owners).

James, yes I know what pre qualification is.

Here was an interesting article on Series LLC's and asset protection I found: https://www.corporatedirect.com/c-corps-s-corps/series-llcs-where-angels-fear-to-tread/I'm also looking at investing out of state, which means I either need an LLC (or multiples) in each state I plan to invest, or I can form in Utah and register with a foreign qualification in another state (or something like that).

If it's a larger organization, feel free to inquire about their staff qualifications.2.

We only see a home that matches what we're looking for every month or two.Last week I emailed my agent for the first time in a few months and told him we would like to go see a certain house we were interested in, that we hadn't gone through preapproval but I had checked on third mortgage qualifications with our lender a few weeks prior and I thought we would have no problem qualifying, and that we're just casually looking until we see a house we want to jump on.REA shows us the home, we tell him we're considering it but going to take a couple of weeks to decide (market is slow here, husband works out of state), but when husband comes back if the home is still available we'd probably put an offer in.

The rates with these are 6-8% so I assume the qualification guidelines must be lower.

As I mentioned before, you cannot require a social security number.My policies state that all applicants have a credit/criminal/eviction report and pass my preset qualifications.