About CREPIG

CREPIG

The Commercial Real Estate Professional Investors Group (CREPIG) was originally started on LinkedIn in 2007.  The group functions of LinkedIn are considered minimal and so a portion of the group was moved to this site which is built on a Ning platform (www.ning.com).  This site was started in July 9th 2008, but was not officially open until November 5^th 2008.  Membership hit over 1000 on March 1^st of 2009.

CREPIG was founded by JW Najarian www.jwnajarian.com and is part of

Emerald Bay Investments, LLC

Tujunga, CA 91042

Mission Statement

CREPIG’s mission is to serve the investment community and the personal investor to find the funding, resources and projects needed to succeed or complete their current or long term goals. To help, teach and mentor the next generation of CRE professionals and be an overall place of connection and learning.

Vision Statement

CREPIG’s Vision is for CREPIG to create a sustainable income to run and grow CREPIG to form a massive, quality database of investors and industry professionals that can provide a full plethora of financial, legal and other services to the investor or investment community.

Values Statement

CREPIG believes that integrity of a person can only be determined via the values one possesses in a particular order. To stay in integrity CREPIG will judge each situation against this value list in this particular order.

Customer Service

Value product / user

Ease of Use

Profitable

CREPIG Policies and Procedures

CREPIG Help

CREPIG has set up a help desk in order to send messages to the administrative staff.  These problems and issues will be answered in the order received and will take precedence over any other form of communication to report issues.  This includes personal emails to the administrative staff or any other form of communication.  This will assure that anyone who needs help will get without favoritism.

Joining CREPIG

CREPIG is a by invitation only site.  In order to be considered you must be recommended or invited.  You must fill out your profile as completely as possible and you must upload a picture of yourself NOT your logo.  Headshots do not have to be professionally done, but must be recognizable.  CREPIG reserves the right to ban a member at any time, for any reason, whenever CREPIG sees fit.  CREPIG will make the determination to warn or ban a member.  Some reasons for not allowing a person to join are as follows.  Picture not viewable or not of face, profile filled in incompletely, person was not invited or recommended.

Banning a Member

CREPIG reserves the right to ban any member at any time for any reason.  CREPIG will try to warn a user of unwanted or abusive conduct, but does not have to.  Most bans have come from spamming (see spamming under Code of Conduct.

Materials on CREPIG

The information and content on the CREPIG website is strictly the opinion of the person that posted it.  CREPIG, it’s owners, founders, staff, vendors, contributors, advisors or any other person associated with CREPIG are not responsible for the content of the Forum, Blogs, Events or any other page on this site that is updatable by the membership at large.  .   CREPIG acknowledges the rights of the individual to express themselves as long as no one else is hurt.  CREPIG believes that being offended is your choice and that a member can choose not to engage.  Hurt is defined at any action that could defame or cause another to lose their livelihood or worse.  Spam, offensive, hurtful, abusive, sexist, racist or grossly negligent material it can be reported to the Help Desk.  CREPIG is a place of business and the expectation is that every member handle themselves in a professional and respectful manner.

Content

CREPIG reserves the right to delete any content for any reason at anytime without explanation. 

·         The Forum can be used to promote your projects, products and services, but if you post more than 5 items in a row CREPIG reserves the right to delete them.   Advertisement space is available to all users for a fee (contact site founder for details).  The Forum should be used for the following and a forum post may be deleted if the criteria below are not adhered to.

o   Deals or Projects

o   Funding Requirements or Availability

o   Have Jobs

o   Need Job

o   Questions

o   Business Opportunities

o   General Announcements

o   CREPIG News (Staff and Admin Only)

·         Blogs should be used to teach, tell stories, make observations, give news or views.

·         Events is used to inform other users of your events. 

·         Chat – We cannot police chat so if you are easily offended please stay out.  If someone on chat is continually abusive please report that person to the Help Desk

·         Videos and Pictures – Pornography is unacceptable.  You will get banned immediately.  Videos and pictures should be used to promote your business or enhance your personal page.

·         Ad space.  CREPIG currently is a no charge site and reserves the right to use advertisement to monetize this site.  Advertisement space is available to all users for a fee (contact site founder for details).  The Forum can be used to promote your projects, products and services, but if you post more than 5 items in a row CREPIG reserves the right to delete them.

Code of Conduct

CREPIG has a NO TOLERANCE Policy for Spam or Spammers

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.  E-mail spam, known as unsolicited bulk Email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.  Instant Messaging spam, sometimes termed spim, makes use of instant messaging or chat systems to send unsolicited promotional information.

Spam is a big problem on networking sites and I am sure that most of you get much to much in your regular mailboxes.

CREPIG is no exception. In order to be open and give you as much freedom as we can we have to avoid policing every situation that occurs, which means we miss things.

To the large majority of users are  respectful of others  There have been some that either don't know what they are doing or just don't care and so for those that don't know hopefully this message will help you and for those that don't care we want to warn you in advance.

WE WERE TOLD YOU WANTED US TO PROMOTE OUR STUFF?

CREPIG encourages you to promote yourself, your project, your service or product, but this must be done respectful of the members of this site.

OTHER INVESTMENTS

We have also allowed members to promote things that were not necessarily CRE related. CREPIG has polled the members and have found that many do want to look at alternative investments. We believe this is a good thing; I deal in commodities so I know about bulk REO, Gold, Diamonds and Oil Deals pretty thoroughly. I for one do not trust over 95% of the claims made. We will watch these ads very closely and if you spam others with them you will be banned.

CREPIG reserves the right to ban or refuse membership to anyone, at any time, for any reason. That being said, unless you really abuse the system you will probably just get a warning, but you won't get two.

As far as Spam is concerned we have a No Tolerance policy. I know some people don't get it and they are so excited about their new business or opportunity that they go over the edge and pound everyone within a ten foot radius, whether the person can fog a mirror or not. As the founder of two MLM companies I understand the excitement and the want to make millions by getting your message out to as many people as you can, as fast as humanly possible. Now know I LOVE MLM and I have a downline that is pretty big. I have never sent one blast to share this info with anyone nor will I. We are all adults, but spamming is not only childish and immature, it is annoying and very disrespectful to the recipient. If you are in business and want to promote it (not just talking MLM), than do it in the Forum.

GROUPS

You can stop following a group, but the group can still send a blast to all members (When you create a group or are the owner you can turn this feature off). It is nice to be able to broadcast to the entire group. What a privilege. With great power, comes great responsibility.

FRIENDS

Friends are different. If you send a bunch of spam to someone you clicked be a friend, and you annoy them, they can block your messages in the future.

COMMENT WALL

Of course you cannot go spam their wall.... Though this site allows anyone to put something on your wall you can via settings choose to moderate what is put up, but this does not stop a person from sending the promotion to you in this way. As the Admin of this site I will consider banning anyone who sends promotion this way

- Be respectful of others

- Treat other as you would like to be treated.

- Never Spam (Spam is sending promotional info to someone who has not asked for it)

You can report abuse or issues by going to the bottom of the page and clicking on Report Abuse or you can go to Suggestions Tab and the link should be at the top of the page.