Far fetched, poorly constructed agreemments are all over the place, left in the imagination of those promoting them.

Coming in unknown, announcing that you are "revolutionizing" the industry, and asking a thinly disguised leading "question" so you can promote your business is an obvious ploy most experienced members see through.If you do have knowledge of the hard money lending industry, taking your time to answer questions, providing unbiased information and sharing your knowledge will go a much longer way to promoting your company than your current "non" participation.

Stocks are a global market so brokerages can buy large ads to promote their brand, creating more public awareness and "noise" about stocks.

A lot depends on your market activity and whether or not you need an agent to help promote it.

There is a fairly aggressive network of promoters that work with the franchise industry to encourage prospective franchisees to tap their 401K funds for this purpose, and with the huge dislocation of corporate employees, it's a huge business.I have been meaning to research whether 401k funds could be used in a ROBS structure to fund various types of real estate businesses that do things like: fix and flip, manage property for others, make rehab loans, etc.

Yeah, I know there are organizations that promote the idea "your home is your biggest investment".

Folks - John Thedford asked how to locate deals -- this thread is not a solicitation for people to promote deals or opportunities.

Looking for a long standing company to use, does anyone have experience with rentecdirect.com that would promote or demote the program.

Rates range from 18% and 10 points (from a guy who lends on the deals that no one else will do) to 10% and 1. 10 and 1 is a private guy who has a small amount of money and only lends to people he knows, but promotes himself as a hard money lender.

That was a great rehab, and a great job with the promotional video!