If you have none in Self Storage, you can play the "IF I succeeded in apt. rentals" card.....Prove your knowledge of the industry by comparing the income/expense ratios of the two (assuming you've had some success in residential rentals) and tell them that if you can make it work with a 50% income/expense ratio, you are confident in your ability to do so at a 35% ratio in the storage world.

I used one of those credit card convenience checks and the interest rate was only 2%.I ended up using the thermal method to get rid of them.

Yes, we pull credit, do employment verification, call individuals for rental history, check their criminal background, and have them list their debts (credit cards, cars, student loans, etc,)

You could break down your paper like this:1) Background - banking crisis, banks not being as willing to lend, how lending criteria changed2) Overview of creative financing methods with subsequent sections going more into depth on each one3) Hard money - what is it, how did it get started, how people find lenders, what lenders charge, and why people use it4) Private lending - what it is, how people find private lenders, why people would go to friends and family for real estate investing5) Peer-to-peer lending - sites like Lending Club and Prosper6) Credit cards - using cash advances, 0% balance transfer offers7) CrowdfundingYou could more than easily write 100 pages on the above topic. 

However you will need to put a down payment (some credit cards give promotional offers for like a year), and you will pay a very high interest rate, like 12-15% with 3-5 points.

if would be one thing if it was their life savings many times they teach them how to up their Credit card limits .. so the attendees actually borrow 20k at CC rates and knowing that they will pay the CC of with their first flip..

. :))BTW,                                GO  CARDS!!!!

I treat my 3 tenants with highest respect and even sent them $100 gift cards to their favorite store this Christmas but I have no need to advertise for more tenants.

They try to get your credit card and financial info on the pretax of finding you funding without having to pull a credit report that might cause a ding on your rating, and supposedly with the opportunity for free deal coaching.

I made business cards for this event that say I'm an Investor/Entrepreneur (I'm about six months from being a published author and 12-18 months from being a speaker), but I feel like I don't have much to offer most of the people there.