subject: Real Estate Investor: The Credibility Kit And Three Key Elements [print this page] When organizing your private lending credibility kit; be sure to bring out your educational experience for credibility. Any certificates that you might have or any boot camps you've been to, even any books that you've read. The more you can include in the kit the more powerful it is.
Include Certifications and Professional Affiliations
If you can list two or three pages of real estate books you've read, courses you've taken, include copies of any certificate that you might have gotten at these various courses, any memberships that you're involved with.
If you're very involved with your local REA group and maybe you're on the board or maybe you help out with the meetings, all those things are extremely powerful and obviously something that you want to bring out.
Recognition Awards
Any recognition awards that you've gotten, even if it's not necessarily real estate related, I think it's very helpful and very powerful. It shows that you have some distinction and that you have shown some leadership and expertise. Maybe it's not even in real estate, but again you've shown these abilities to kind of stand out from the crowd.
Anything else you've attended or if you could list every single book - I know personally I have read probably well over 100 real estate books, maybe more, I don't know.
Seminars and Courses
I do not attend a lot of boot camps; I'm not a boot camp person. I've attended a few. I typically don't go to them. I think they tend to be a little too long and too costly for the most part. However, if you have attended some of those they are important to put down.
Any other experience that you've gotten, if you've taken local courses at a community college or a local college put all of that stuff down, it clearly shows some expertise in the real estate investing.
Other Related Education
Before turning to real estate investment you have additional education in another field that can attest to your dedication and credibility as a real estate investor. Include this in your educational experience and explain how it relates to your ability to be successful in real estate.
For example, you may have a business degree for another field in which you previously worked. Describe how this type of education defines your ability to successfully manage and execute a real estate transaction.
