He also stated he's worked with people who have changed their name for citizenship or marriage, but not religious conversion.  

Hello BP,  I have been religiously listening and catching up on the podcasts.  

One of our group leaders once had a sub-500 credit score and two years ago obtained a $1 Million line of credit for one of his business entities.

They give you access to this office space to meet with fellow or potential members, and there is always one of the leaders there to bounce ideas, run numbers, etc. 

You could check with Leader One.

The Private lender that I selected for this deal claimed that he is always willing to close church deals as long as the income was strong and the borrower had reserves and if need be they would look at additional guarantors .Well I figured this was an easy match until the lender began to speak on the conference call and made a ton of insensitive remarks, a few religious jokes gone wrong and even an ill timed reference to pornography.

HI WillieThanks for your response.I have been religiously listening to as many podcasts as possible.With regards to exit strategies, have you found a particular strategy that works best in our economy?

Thank you for the kind words - at 75 years old now - I remember years ago when this I became motivated to invest in real estate (really -  my motivation was to make money and quick my low paying job)  I use to take every class and seminar on real estate investing and would read as much as I could all the time about real estate investing -  that is when I was 21 years old, some of the information was junk (seminars leaders trying to make money selling courses and useless information)  and some were really great, but at the time I didn't know what I didn't know, I finally got the nerve and courage to go out and try some of those crazy formulas they were talking about - and guess what - some of those far out creative financing techniques started to work for me - it was really scary because I started to make money - more money than I ever thought was possible with my limited formal education back than, I discovered I made more money than the president of the company I worked for - needless to say - I quit that job and devoted more time to making offers and collecting those large assignment fees - now even today at my age I continue to make offers - at this time the offers have lots of zeros in them ---- so all that good and useless education  paid off.You best teacher is the market - get out there and make offers, look at 50 houses - but don't make offers on those properties until you find the one deal that is absolute right for the profit making - just keep good records - listen to the sellers, do your comps, learn how to write "skinny contract offers", practice "Control and Roll" principals of controlling real estate with no money and assign your contracts using accelerated sales methods. 

You are just going to have to go and make the best decision as a leader to your business. 

He is a great leader and skilled tradesman.I have my ND real estate license, but have been inactive while we decide where we will be relocating to.