It does affect your credit score every time someone does a "hard pull" of it.Why in the world are they pulling your credit? 

At first I felt pulled equally between wholesaling, flipping, and buy & hold, but I think I've finally got a strategy knocked out that I can live with.

I can pull past mls history and really look at it to give my opinion...

Second do most investors pull permits for work that is not electrical or plumbing?

I said hold on and pulled out an end buyer sheet that I use to collect info.

I also do know that a seller pulled a pool out from under him that he had presold a large amount of the assets and after getting them funded, he then had to return the funds.  

@Andre BrasserYou will have to wait 6 months to pull out the value of the property and if it is a SFR, you will only be able to do 75% LTV and a MFR is 70% LTV.

We have enough saved up for a down payment on an investment property now, but I'd like to make sure I have a solid plan and have found a great deal before pulling the trigger on anything.I know the market here in Raleigh is crazy, so I'm considering things like direct mail marketing to try and find good deals.

My goal is to learn my local market inside and out and have all of the pieces together before I pull the trigger. 

I pulled a list of absentee buyers in the last six months and have been looking into the individual buyers and whether they have multiple properties.