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Rich's Traveling Classroom

Continuing education for Houston-area Realtors that's practical, entertaining, and actually worth staying awake for. Real strategy. Real tools. A magnificent beard.

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HHL SRE · Texas CE Provider #11321-CEP

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THE BEARD IS REAL

Meet Rich Bonn

Mortgage nerd. Traveling classroom. Bearded problem-solver. Professional maker of questionable jokes.

If real estate education had a comic-book character, Rich Bonn would probably show up wearing a jacket, a kippah, a very serious beard, and carrying enough energy to power half of Houston.

Rich is the force behind Habayit Home Loans, where he helps homebuyers, investors, entrepreneurs, 1099 earners, and especially self-employed borrowers figure out how to buy real estate when their financial lives do not fit neatly inside the little boxes traditional lending loves so much.

His specialty?

The borrowers who make great money... but whose tax returns somehow make it look like they survive on ramen noodles and optimism.

Over the years, Rich discovered something else: he loves teaching almost as much as he loves solving complicated mortgage puzzles.

That is how the Traveling Classroom was born.

Instead of expecting real estate professionals to sit through another painfully boring class under fluorescent lights while quietly reconsidering every life decision that brought them there, Rich takes education on the road. He teaches practical CE classes designed to give Realtors tools they can actually use, covering everything from self-employed borrowers and alternative mortgage strategies to appraisal changes, artificial intelligence, personal branding, and the wonderfully weird intersection of real estate and technology.

The teaching style is simple: useful information, real-world examples, zero desire to sound like a textbook. Expect stories. Expect interaction. Expect the occasional terrible joke that Rich will find considerably funnier than everyone else.

And expect energy. A lot of energy.

Rich believes education should make you want to do something with what you learned. Every class is built around helping real estate professionals solve more problems, serve more people, build stronger businesses, and become an even bigger resource for their clients.

Behind all the comic-book energy is a pretty simple mission: help good people build wealth, freedom, and legacies through real estate. Rich has experienced what it means to build, lose, rebuild, and keep moving forward — and that perspective shapes the way he teaches, the way he approaches mortgages, and the way he works with the real estate community.

So if you are looking for an instructor who stands behind a podium reading PowerPoint slides word-for-word... Rich is probably not your guy. But if you want a Traveling Classroom packed with useful ideas, memorable stories, mortgage knowledge, AI, real estate strategy, a magnificent beard, and enough personality to make continuing education actually entertaining...

Welcome to class.

Provider #11321-CEP

Classes We Teach

Four classes. Zero fluff. All the CE credit you need — and a few good stories along the way.

How to Get a Mortgage When Your Tax Return Says NO

CE #39343-RECE

Your buyer makes good money. Their business is thriving. Their CPA is doing exactly what CPAs are supposed to do. Then the mortgage application shows up and suddenly the tax return makes them look financially allergic to homeownership.

Cue dramatic music.

This class teaches real estate professionals how self-employed buyers, 1099 earners, entrepreneurs, and business owners may still have options when traditional income documentation does not tell the whole story. We break down real-world strategies including bank statements, 1099 income, profit-and-loss statements, asset-based qualification, investor programs, and other alternative documentation solutions.

No underwriting doctorate required. Just practical knowledge that can help you stop throwing perfectly good buyers into the "CAN'T QUALIFY" pile.

Because sometimes the borrower is not the problem. The measuring stick is.

The New Appraisal Form Rewrote the Rules. Are You Ready?

CE #40064-RECE

The appraisal world changed. And if your strategy is, "Eh, the appraiser will figure it out," we should probably talk.

This class breaks down the new appraisal process, what real estate agents need to know, what information matters, and how changes to appraisal reporting can affect listings, contracts, negotiations, and transactions. We translate appraisal-speak into actual human language and show you where agents can help prevent small issues from turning into giant, flaming transaction monsters.

You will leave knowing what changed, why it matters, and how to better prepare your clients and listings before the appraiser ever walks through the door.

Fewer surprises. Better preparation. Less screaming into your steering wheel.

Personal Branding Mastery with AI

CE #39362-RECE

Posting another "Just Listed" graphic is not a personal brand. Neither is changing your headshot every seven years. This class is about becoming memorable.

We dig into how real estate professionals can use AI to build a recognizable personal brand, create better content, generate ideas faster, tell better stories, and stop sounding exactly like every other agent on the internet. You will learn practical ways to use AI as a creative partner without turning your marketing into generic robot oatmeal.

Because the goal is not to produce more content. The goal is for somebody to remember YOU when they finally need a Realtor.

How to Make AI Your #1 Referral Partner

CE #39949-RECE

Imagine having a referral partner who works 24/7, never gets tired, knows a ridiculous amount of information, and can potentially introduce your business to people while you sleep. No, we did not build a tiny Realtor inside your laptop. We are talking about AI search and recommendation.

This class shows real estate professionals how tools like ChatGPT and other AI platforms discover, understand, and recommend businesses, and what you can do to make your digital presence easier for those systems to understand. We cover websites, content, authority, online reputation, positioning, and the signals that help AI figure out exactly who you help and why you matter.

Google taught everyone to fight for clicks. AI is creating a new fight: getting recommended. Welcome to the next battlefield.

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