According to his first 2 messages, he selected my unit for significant cost-savings over his current rental.

Rentscreener seemed to be the only website that allows you to really customize an online application and select your own credit bureau.

If you do select that route I would make sure you have the right follow up infrastructure to nurture those leads so they dont die - they're 3% ROI typically. 

Provided you select a local team of independent, best-in-class service providers all focused on serving you with no conflicts of interest or under-the-table collusion, I see no reason to spend your hard-earned profits visiting the properties.

Hi All,I'm mostly a BRRRR investor but I'm in an interesting scenario where a few investments I recently acquired can be either good Holds or good Flips.I'm close to the point to select my finishes and was trying to decide which way I should go. 

Makes me feel good knowing I could eliminate that from my selection.

You can select a bunch of affinity traits (people that like whatever). 

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I suspect that there will eventually be investigations due to the extremely high likelyhood of extensive fraud with this veritable money cannon, but I suspect it will be randomly selected loans they check into, and probably along with any obvious red flags for fake applications, but no idea what those would look like. 

This person can then help you actually execute the deal while teaching you along the way:Look your deal over from top to bottom and determine if you have a "deal" (run the numbers, do local market due diligence, property due diligence, etc.)Conduct and-or participate in the negotiations  Assist with the team building process (property management selection is absolutely KEY)Create deal package/loan request package to help raise the equity and the debt (not so easy anymore)Help guide both you and the deal through the acquisitionHelp initiate and execute the business plan, working closely with the property management companyAssist/teach you how to asset manage  You can start looking for that person right here on BP.