Build a robust risk management framework to protect assets and instill confidence.Key Factors to PrioritizeEvaluating PeopleAssess the capabilities, track records, and reputations of the management team and key stakeholders.

When one is using other people's money to run an investment business, reputation and integrity is the highest priority in my book.

If the report is from a reputable credit reporting agency and includes all the information I require, I see no reason not to accept it.

In your case though, you have to be careful when it comes to risks as there's other people's money on the line, as well as your reputation and your ability to raise money in the future.Hope this helps.

For the sake of your reputation and ours, I wouldn't lie to get a lower rate. 

This is a very sensitive question @Yongming Huang but all I will say it that the barrier to entry as a Real Estate Agent is very low, hence the poor reputation for some agents. 

Gravel he had not paid for and owed them hundreds of thousands  we paid for the rock and made him give us supplier receipts for the rest of the project and paid suppliers direct. 

I'm extremely active in Cleveland OH real estate groups, with a very clean reputation (ha, I don't even know how I'd build a bad reputation..

If they do, they probably don't work with me for long, and I'd rather spend the time finding a good supplier/partner/contractor/investor/whatever.I have spent my entire life striving to be the best I could without noticing, mostly, whether the people around me were discriminating against me because I was female. 

My daughter and son-in-law opened their own business 3 years ago and so far have done well, but he built a good reputation in his field before starting their own, she kept her good corporate job for benefits, and they are now looking to invest in property with the profits, hoping for more passive income in the future as they’ve realized how much extra work a small business is with compliance, licenses, workers comp, etc.