New investors with start up issues

[Matthew D'Encarnacao]

My partner and I are looking to begin investment into real estate. I have been talking with hard money lenders to establish what will be needed to begin the process and the problem I am running into is credit. Personally mine is not terrible but it isn't quite to the 650 to 680 I keep getting quoted. If I can build credit in my LLC will that suffice or do they normally continue to look at your personal as well? I have considered also looking for a partner/mentor to help get us off the ground and we would bring the capital. Has anyone had this issue with credit and if you didn't just improve your credit how did you get around it?