We went and got pre approved for the mortgages.

Do you go through a mortgage broker to acquire an FHA loan or apply for pre-approval online and go through there own contracted banks?

These are older homes (pre 1970) so you can eliminate the lead paint issue by only working on post 1978 construction (this eliminates a good chunk of your options).Based on what I have observed in the business, most rehabs are not tested for lead or asbestos and most do not pull permits.

I’ve paid for list ( absentee owners, high equity, pre-foreclosure, etc) and honestly it wasn’t worth the money.

For that reason, my investors and I have given the preference to investing in pre-construction in other countries like Mexico and the Dominican Republic there because we can get private financing through my connections (and I personally know developers).

The leads are not as fresh, necessarily as the lists mentioned above, but you can do intersting things to "stack" lists to get people that are in pre-foreclosure *and* out of state *and* have a tax lien *and* are not listed on the MLS.

I was Recently pre-approved for about $200,000Traveling to different states would not really be an option, aside for maybe once if I was committed to a specific location. 

It's actually the PM branch of a turnkey provider, so they have a contracting team and pre-negotiated rates, which kept things simple for me.

Are there any other lists I should look at I'm hearing that targeting Pre Foreclosure's is not prohibited in Maryland could anyone elaborate on that?

Can me getting pre-qualified hurt my credit score..and up to how many lenders are allowed to run my credit in this period?