was wondering if anyone had this experience or insight on credit history.Met with a potential tenant for a class B-C type apartment I own and interview went very well, she asked a lot of questions about the unit and how things were run and who to call for utilities and Etc etc.. 

Marketing efforts--- Do they promote themselves on several platforms?

Some are in established neighborhoods.

We set the price based on our original assumptions but the offers we received were all well below what we needed. 

If you're well capitalized and simply want to experiment, either Option may suit you.

You could reach out to Kevin Kim at Geraci LLP in CA who's firm does securities and PML law in all states and is intimate with CA, OR, WA, and ID laws as well as corresponding state specific financial institutions governance (in WA it's called DFI or Department of Financial Institutions) and how to navigate their expectations accordingly... 

Be very careful of these fake on line lenders.. its a huge scam these days.. while 100% exists in the market place its only for well established long term repeat clients.

Drive around a bit as well - there's still a lot of regional players in billboards if one is operating in your market chances are you'll do better with them. 

Some require six months of seasoning, while others may accept three months if the refinance is "on platform," meaning you closed the bridge loan with them.

I'd say that in your scope of work to make sure timelines are a part of it as well, and that you make it a goal of yours to never have the house "empty", meaning there's not a day that a worker of some sort isn't scheduled to be in there.