So my question still stands: Since my qualification is dependent on rental income of a particular property, how does it work with getting a pre-approval letter? 

@Jr Chery @Jr Chery start as conventional as possible meaning don’t think your smarter and identifying properties because something stands out to you.

If investors prepare to stand the storm which most seasoned investors do, then everything will be ok as the market will always come back stronger, at least history says so along with inflation

So your house may not stand out because it is too similar to the competition.

Aside from a bounced check fee if I were to accept a personal check (which I don't plan to) what other money would I stand to lose?

The point of all this is to find strategies to improve lead generation specifically by combining and integrating and complimentimg diffferent stand alone lead gen strategies.

You want to be the last man standing when it comes to direct mail.

@Jerry W. thats a lot of runaround for a lawyer, I just prefer that to standing out in the open?

The developers of course point to the benefit of their project helping an area.So if you are an investor looking at an OZ zone it could stand to reason the project might be more desirable and considered possibly safer if it's in a nicer area within a designated OZ zone.    

You want to do whatever you can to make your mail piece stand out because other investors are going to be mailing your sellers, too, because the seller is most likely on their mailing lists.