For instance, consider two properties on the same block that are virtually identical but one has a carport.

In addition to the 7 federal classes, this state adds:Public Assistance (Sec. 8, welfare, SSI, TANF, etc), Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (including transgender), Marital Status, Military or Veteran Status, Age (except 55+ communities) and AncestryYou can discriminate against non-protected classes, like illegal drug users - but if it has a disparate impact on a protected class, it still may be subject to challenge.If your unit is not de-leaded, you can still not refuse to rent to a family with kids under 6 years of age.

In this tight inventory market, it's far easier for you to find a 70% ARV home than it is a 60% ARV home to have room for an assignment fee.Obviously, we do it every day in both categories, but I'm also a Licensed GC with dozens of crews, a full office team including a rehab manager, etc... so it makes flipping very easy for us.Flipping is much riskier from a time, money, rehab, construction, crew, theft, vandalism during ownership, lawsuit, insurance, holding cost perspective....but we still do plenty of them.We used to be 80-90% retail flips. 

This is not locked out because I forgot my password it was because my identity needs to be verified.

I run the property managment as a DBA, Lovely Living Property Management, so that I can hide my identity but it's not incorporated at all.

John Sanderson , you are correct about what “notarizing a document” is for, which is why I suggested that to the OP after the very first commenter here pointed out that documents can be falsified.Someone else suggested having the prospective tenant go to the county’s tax website to verify the property owner’s identity.

Those costs would likely be identical on a $300K loan for a higher priced quad.

When you do provide it (e.g. applying for loan in your own name), make sure they are a reputable company.Unfortunately identity theft is a real thing and can really screw up your life for year and years once it happens.Oren

If they're concerned I'll lose some or all of the account value at the same time as I default on the loan, they could roll the contribution money into an identical account at their institution where the only investment option is cash (or whatever they consider safe enough). 

Then looking closer, I see that there are two identical neighboring triplex for sale.