I recently received an email via my contact info on my Blog from an agent pondering the question: "Should I do C-CREC, ACRE or both?" Here is my response:

C-CREC was the only organization active when I started in the business. Since then, ACRE was born with the primary mission of actually helping practitioners implement the consulting model through our coaching program (I am one of the coaches).

You don't need both. Choose ACRE.

As you can see I fully disclosed that I am an ACRE coach so he would know that I perhaps had a personal motivation for pointing him to ACRE. That being said, I do strongly believe that ACRE provides a more practical experience coached by people who have actually practiced what we preach.

Here's the rub and it is more disturbing...