Their rental history?

GC had an awesome find, a kid who'd worked as tile pro's helper for years and was meticulous, but too slow and paid by the hour, so unknown to me, he fired him and hired the all time hack crew in history!

For example, landlords  focusing on Section 8, low income or students (without much credit history)  may lean off the credit (which is likely to be lower/nonexistant and use the cosigner and focus on government portion of check) but focus more on another ingredient, like criminal background and rental history. 

That is the type of project to take on, out of love, once you are a wealthy and philanthropic real estate investor and want to enjoy bringing a piece of history back to life.

I went in to the bank to see if I get pre approved, my score is 710, but they said I need at least one installment loan on my credit history, they recommended me buying a car.

:@Geoffrey HoffmanGeoffrey,I would check the title report that would be by far the most accurate way of determining the history of sales or transfers. 

(I've seen several posts on Bigger Pockets where people posted generic and unhelpful information on marketplaces and sponsors like: "feel comfortable with the sponsor by seeing their history and reading their site information".

I'm a recent transplant from Canada to the US.I remember looking at US properties as a Canadian, and one of the challenges I hit alot was financing; US institutions wanted to see US based W2 income and US credit history (assuming say a pretty straight forward conventional investor mortgage, not a commercial mortgage) that felt like a significant roadblock.One thing to note though is that some of the major Canadian banks (BMO, TD, RBC) have major US operations; and with those, comes the ability to secure financing based on your Canadian source income, and Canadian credit history.This is a phenomenal resource for most Canadians (albeit you're limited often to only one property purchase as part of these programs, and some will restrict it to "vacation/second home" only, no investor/rental).

Leybovich is suggesting that a bank might not be willing to engage in this arrangement without a prior history with me.Steven J.I believe the current owner, who has had the properties for 35 years, owns them free and clear.

What has been the history of Pest control and Fertilization ?