Quote from @Sarah Vann DuRant: What type of properties and markets are you interested in?

Their DTI is fine, it's the dang LO who is the one that isn't qualified.

Lo and behold a lot of the locations I gave him, my signs were not there so I had to make him go back and put the signs in those locations. 

So, I reached out to them when the housing folks stonewalled me (this was several years ago so I don’t even remember what the issue was), and lo and behold, the issue got resolved in a day.

tty LO, the deal can take forever and possibly fall apart.I live in South Jersey, outside of Philly. 

Quote from @Chris Lo: I may be renting out my house sometime next year.

Huge developments announced and dirt moving all the way to Durant OK. 

So I agreed to make some calls for my husband during the day and something just told me to look Scott up and lo and behold this is the first thing that popped up.

Working with an LO that is willing to have hard conversations as soon as they come up can help set expectations throughout the process.  

HI Joseph,It may help to find a LO who is well versed in few critical areas:- knows their guidelines and has experience that can be obtained via recommendations, video recommendations, and vet the person online or from social circle /referrals/realtors/etc- invests in real estate themselves and is familiar with your objectives and goals and knows the metrics and terms from which you are determining your objectives- Not completely necessary but if they know how to read and coordinate a cash flow, income statement, and balance sheet it will help to coordinate your objectives as wellRE investors usually present more difficult files especially when the properties and businesses are numerous.