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The knowledge and skills required for each of these disciplines is essential for establishing an Apartment Investment Business that not only competes in the marketplace but thrives.

Learning the material and passing the quizzes and final exams involved in the programs not only ensures your understanding of what it takes to be successful in the Apartment Investment Business but gives you a competitive advantage against those who simply focus on doing transactions or those looking to build their business without this knowledge.

Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change your world.”

Many investors spend years, a lot of money and blood sweat and tears learning from unguided experience. Experience can be a good teacher but she can also be a very cruel teacher.

You don’t know what you don’t know until it becomes an issue and in apartment property investing, learning what you don’t know can become very costly in lost deals, non-performing deals, and missed opportunities, not to mention emotional turmoil.

The Apartment Investment industry is populated by educated professionals: real estate brokers, property managers, bankers, lenders, attorneys, appraisers, or contractors. These people want to do business with other educated professionals and don’t waste their time with those that don’t know the business. Why? Because their livelihood, their income, is dependent upon whether or not a deal closes.

They gravitate to those investors who demonstrate their professionalism and knowledge of the business. If you have ever been asked for a proof of funds, then you did or said something to trigger the “warning” signal in that professional’s mind. Which means, you didn’t come across as a professional yourself. The worst part is, you don’t know what you said or did because you don’t know what you don’t know.

If you are just starting out, or if you are looking to scale a business to a larger size, the Online Certificate Specialist programs will allow you to have a full understanding and the skills needed for your Apartment Investment business which will allow grow at the speed you are comfortable with.

The benefit of the program is you can take one, several or all of the specializations. If you are having a problem in one specific area, take that program first. If you want to expand and train new team members or employees to handle specific aspects of the business, you can focus on what you do best…. put them through those programs. This is how you scale a business.

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The Certified Specialist Programs:

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Property Asset Management Specialist

As an investor, the best use of your time is sourcing money and finding more deals. Having good asset management skills allows you to hand over day-to-day operations of a property to a property management company while you oversee it from a high level view.

In saying that, you need to know when things are going right, when things are going wrong (as early as possible) and the corrective actions to take.

After the takeover process is complete, your job is to review key reports, look at key performance numbers and site visit the property from time-to-time. As an owner and the asset manager of the property for your private money investors, you need to have systems to ensure the property is running as efficiently as possible and systems in place when it is not.

The modules in the Property Asset Management Specialist certification are:

Module 1: The Role of the Asset Manager

Module 2: Getting Good Property Management Companies

Module 3: The Property Takeover

Getting Off To The Right Start

Module 4: The “Property” Management Team

The Key Players

Module 5: Property Visits

What To Do And What Not To Do

Module 6: Financials

How To Read “YOUR” Report Card

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The knowledge and skills required for each of these disciplines is essential for establishing an Apartment Investment Business that not only competes in the marketplace but thrives.

Learning the material and passing the quizzes and final exams involved in the programs not only ensures your understanding of what it takes to be successful in the Apartment Investment Business but gives you a competitive advantage against those who simply focus on doing transactions or those looking to build their business without this knowledge.

Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change your world.”

Many investors spend years, a lot of money and blood sweat and tears learning from unguided experience. Experience can be a good teacher but she can also be a very cruel teacher.

You don’t know what you don’t know until it becomes an issue and in apartment property investing, learning what you don’t know can become very costly in lost deals, non-performing deals, and missed opportunities, not to mention emotional turmoil.

The Apartment Investment industry is populated by educated professionals: real estate brokers, property managers, bankers, lenders, attorneys, appraisers, or contractors. These people want to do business with other educated professionals and don’t waste their time with those that don’t know the business. Why? Because their livelihood, their income, is dependent upon whether or not a deal closes.

They gravitate to those investors who demonstrate their professionalism and knowledge of the business. If you have ever been asked for a proof of funds, then you did or said something to trigger the “warning” signal in that professional’s mind. Which means, you didn’t come across as a professional yourself. The worst part is, you don’t know what you said or did because you don’t know what you don’t know.

If you are just starting out, or if you are looking to scale a business to a larger size, the Online Certificate Specialist programs will allow you to have a full understanding and the skills needed for your Apartment Investment business which will allow grow at the speed you are comfortable with.

The benefit of the program is you can take one, several or all of the specializations. If you are having a problem in one specific area, take that program first. If you want to expand and train new team members or employees to handle specific aspects of the business, you can focus on what you do best…. put them through those programs. This is how you scale a business.

Allow us to train you and/or your staff.

The Certified Specialist Programs:

Are You Becoming One Or Are You Competing Against One?

Underwriting Specialist

The common mistake we see at RE Mentor are deals that are not underwritten properly. If a deal fails, the most common reason is the initial underwriting was not done properly. When this happens the investor doesn’t see the return he/she projected and his/her investors do not get their return that was forecast.

Becoming an Underwriting Specialist is crucial to your success and credibility in the Commercial Real Estate Investing business. Imagine giving your deal to an investor or a lender and their response is, “This deal doesn’t work, it wasn’t underwritten properly,” and they then begin to ask you where you got certain numbers and you give answers that show you don’t know what you’re doing. Bye bye investor, bye bye lender.

The Underwriting Specialist certification takes you through the disciplines and skills needed to underwrite deals so you will have the confidence that the offer you put in will meet your and your investors’ financial goals.

The modules in the Underwriting Specialist certification are:

Module 1: The Checklist

What You Don’t Check Off Will Cost You

Module 2: Offering Memorandum

How To Read Between The Lines

Module 3: Understanding Income

What’s Real And What’s Not

Module 4: Understanding Expenses

What Are They Hiding?

Module 5: The Profit and Loss Statement

What Story Is It Telling

Module 6: The Rent Roll & Value Add Opportunities

A Treasure of Information

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The knowledge and skills required for each of these disciplines is essential for establishing an Apartment Investment Business that not only competes in the marketplace but thrives.

Learning the material and passing the quizzes and final exams involved in the programs not only ensures your understanding of what it takes to be successful in the Apartment Investment Business but gives you a competitive advantage against those who simply focus on doing transactions or those looking to build their business without this knowledge.

Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change your world.”

Many investors spend years, a lot of money and blood sweat and tears learning from unguided experience. Experience can be a good teacher but she can also be a very cruel teacher.

You don’t know what you don’t know until it becomes an issue and in apartment property investing, learning what you don’t know can become very costly in lost deals, non-performing deals, and missed opportunities, not to mention emotional turmoil.

The Apartment Investment industry is populated by educated professionals: real estate brokers, property managers, bankers, lenders, attorneys, appraisers, or contractors. These people want to do business with other educated professionals and don’t waste their time with those that don’t know the business. Why? Because their livelihood, their income, is dependent upon whether or not a deal closes.

They gravitate to those investors who demonstrate their professionalism and knowledge of the business. If you have ever been asked for a proof of funds, then you did or said something to trigger the “warning” signal in that professional’s mind. Which means, you didn’t come across as a professional yourself. The worst part is, you don’t know what you said or did because you don’t know what you don’t know.

If you are just starting out, or if you are looking to scale a business to a larger size, the Online Certificate Specialist programs will allow you to have a full understanding and the skills needed for your Apartment Investment business which will allow grow at the speed you are comfortable with.

The benefit of the program is you can take one, several or all of the specializations. If you are having a problem in one specific area, take that program first. If you want to expand and train new team members or employees to handle specific aspects of the business, you can focus on what you do best…. put them through those programs. This is how you scale a business.

Allow us to train you and/or your staff.

The Certified Specialist Programs:

Are You Becoming One Or Are You Competing Against One?

Acquisition Specialist

You’re not in business unless you are doing deals. In order to do deals you must form key relationships, create a brand that is trusted in the marketplace, and work a marketing plan that brings in qualified deals on a regular basis.

A good marketing plan consists of multiple ways of sourcing deals. The Acquisition Specialist certification gives the knowledge base with “done for you” resources to allow you to compete in the marketplace effectively for the deals that are available.

The modules in the Acquisition Specialist certification are:

Module 1: Branding

Presenting Yourself To The Marketplace

Module 2: Broker Relationships

Keys To The Kingdom

Module 3: Direct Mail

The Deal Machine

Module 4: Internet

How To Use It Effectively To Get Deals

Module 5: Reo/Lender Relationships

Your Local Banker Is Your Friend

Module 6: Niche Sources

Hidden Gems

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The knowledge and skills required for each of these disciplines is essential for establishing an Apartment Investment Business that not only competes in the marketplace but thrives.

Learning the material and passing the quizzes and final exams involved in the programs not only ensures your understanding of what it takes to be successful in the Apartment Investment Business but gives you a competitive advantage against those who simply focus on doing transactions or those looking to build their business without this knowledge.

Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change your world.”

Many investors spend years, a lot of money and blood sweat and tears learning from unguided experience. Experience can be a good teacher but she can also be a very cruel teacher.

You don’t know what you don’t know until it becomes an issue and in apartment property investing, learning what you don’t know can become very costly in lost deals, non-performing deals, and missed opportunities, not to mention emotional turmoil.

The Apartment Investment industry is populated by educated professionals: real estate brokers, property managers, bankers, lenders, attorneys, appraisers, or contractors. These people want to do business with other educated professionals and don’t waste their time with those that don’t know the business. Why? Because their livelihood, their income, is dependent upon whether or not a deal closes.

They gravitate to those investors who demonstrate their professionalism and knowledge of the business. If you have ever been asked for a proof of funds, then you did or said something to trigger the “warning” signal in that professional’s mind. Which means, you didn’t come across as a professional yourself. The worst part is, you don’t know what you said or did because you don’t know what you don’t know.

If you are just starting out, or if you are looking to scale a business to a larger size, the Online Certificate Specialist programs will allow you to have a full understanding and the skills needed for your Apartment Investment business which will allow grow at the speed you are comfortable with.

The benefit of the program is you can take one, several or all of the specializations. If you are having a problem in one specific area, take that program first. If you want to expand and train new team members or employees to handle specific aspects of the business, you can focus on what you do best…. put them through those programs. This is how you scale a business.

Allow us to train you and/or your staff.

The Certified Specialist Programs:

Are You Becoming One Or Are You Competing Against One?

Funding Specialist

Where are you going to get the money to do your deals? This is called the capital stack. It’s called that because every deal usually has two, three and sometimes more types of funding on it.

The first part of the stack is usually institutional funding, the senior debt. Next comes either a second mortgage, mezzanine financing, a bridge loan…the options vary. Then there is the downpayment and closing cost, if syndicated will come from private money investors or a variety of other partners, such as private equity, who may be in the deal.

Then there is the actual deal structure, the way the equity is carved out and paid. Every deal is a puzzle that needs to be solved to get to the closing table. The Funding Specialist certification will give you the tools and understanding you need to put it all together.

The modules in the Funding Specialist certification are:

Module 1: Institutional Funding (Senior Debt)

Module 2: Institutional Term Sheet

How to Understand and Negotiate Them

Module 3: Hard Money

Not So Hard If You Know When To Use It

Module 4: Private Money

Where To Get It

Module 5: Syndications

How To Put Them Together Legally

Module 6: Structuring The Deals

How To Carve It Up And Get It Done

Module 7: Private Money Presentations

What, Where and Who To Say It To