You have to do your due diligence on areas where this is your intention.

Our stated criteria (we are intentionally vague since we don't charge screening fees, we prefer a wider applicant pool to choose from):Our Criteria:We do not deny housing for race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, sexual orientation, marital status, or familial status.We do deny housing to individuals: when the application is not complete or accurate where there is not sufficient income/resources to pay rent and live (2x rent)where there is poor prior tenancy: evictions, violations, damage to rental property, poorly handled move outs, amounts are still owing to landlords or utilities.

Last vacancy I had (for an apartment I wasn't intentionally keeping empty to reno) was just a couple of hours.

I have started networking with the intention of finding potential deals. 

I'm still waiting to see if they approve, but now seems I might need to go to another bank, maybe local.I'm quite ill informed on how the local banks work.

Once that comes back Ill make the call and get things rolling.

Equity isn't a bad thing...refinancing and pulling out equity when you have no plan on reinvesting that money is costly and ill advised. 

So as soon as we had a dumpster in the driveway he appeared & asked what are intentions were, they also get alerted whenever a property sells & this was foreclosure sitting for a couple of years.

This is definitely something I am looking to build off of, he has other lots capable of holding houses in which he has no intention of building and is very willing to help me through everything.

I'm just thinking that I made the mistake of telling them my intentions (that I wanted to rent out the other units), but I'm just curious if it's a federal law with buying multifamily properties.