However, depending on how I go about it, I need to know, would having a company provide me with a W2 vs being an independent contractor and utilizing a 1099 impact our ability to qualify for a conventional loan?

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We already knew that and it has been very well documented.One of the big reasons why this was allowed to happen is that the companies providing these loans not only had no incentive to make good loans, they had plenty of incentive to make terrible loans (or, just as many loans as they could) because the entity they would sell their loans to (Bear Stearns, Lehman, etc) wanted not the yield from individual mortgages, but the ability to package lots of mortgages into some three letter abbreviation (MBS, CMO, CDO, etc) and trade that product as an asset backed security.

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The ability to get a deal closed matters.

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Where you are and what is acceptable practice will guide how you should conduct business.If you say it's a new roof in your advertising, it better be a new roof just put on otherwise say it's 6 months old or what ever.Contracting with a seller and having them take a property off the market and not having the ability to buy can get you hammered, you're not dealing in good faith and you'll cause the seller to miss out on other offers during marketing periods, that can add up to some real damages for a seller.If you sell to a buyer who is getting a loan, you may have issues if the lender sees a double closing and they can before it closes, they don't fund and you're hung.

However, she had no ability to manage the business.

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