Let me make this insanely easy...Look up the property on the Lee County Property Appraiser's site (http://www.leepa.org/Search/PropertySearch.aspx) then click "Parcel Details".Once the property page pops up, there's a button in the top banner that says "Tax Estimator".

We are thinking to invest in a single family home in a small town (pop. ~2k) in rural Midwest.

I'm thinking groups from BSSM and community (womens, mens, youth, music workshops, artists, crafts, health & wellness, etc.) family reunions, business groups, holidays, wedding parties, etc. 

Once the property was acquired and rehabbed by the Investor Partners who set up the "Credit Partner," the deed would then be transferred from the "Credit Partner" to the LLC of the ACTUAL Partners, $10k would be given to the "Credit Partner" and that Credit Partner's role was ended.This was FAIRLY common and all kinds of people, from Mom and Pop to experienced Real Estate Investors had conducted this.Most people believed that Credit Partners was a win-win for everyone.The problem here was that the "Credit Partner" is an illegal STRAW Man, who pretended to have the intent to own a property for his own use only to defraud a Mortgage Company.But this was fairly common practice and was done ALL THE TIME.When the financial crisis hit, the major players who ran this scheme was put in to jail as the Investors lost money from their properties.

I have bought properties sub2 many times without the lender making a deal of it, but usually the lender was a larger bank Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank Of America etc.I looked up lender info and it appears they are in 7-8 states so it doesn’t seem to be a mom and Pop outfit.

With flips, most of your money is made up front on the purchase, not on the sale... so my best advice is analyze a ton of properties with the BP calculators and when a GREAT deal pops up you'll know it, and you'll be ready to pounce on it quickly.

So I thought it's not right at all. told you SO  these guys have the same pitch and scam.. probably a few hundred of them working it at anyone time. just for grins.. here are a few for real lenders you can pop on their websites and see their pricing structure this is REAL and this is what money costs today.Lendinghomelima oneConventusAnchor

Successful investors don't really need help finding deals (we all have internet and email access), they need a trusted business partner to help them with market analysis, due diligence, financing, inspections, negotiations, and a host of other issues that will inevitably pop up. 

Hard to compare all of that with less details than what an appraisal looks at.My bigger picture response would be- in my experience with rental properties, and most of my portfolio is turnkeys, unexpected things will always pop up.

Artistic licence takes a basic premise and runs with it to suite the goal of the writer which is...…..selling books.The reader needs to be intelligent enough to differentiate between fact and exclusion of fact.