BiggerPockets

HI REReality,
I've taken Marco's course and I had a generally good experience. But like everything you must apply the information. These days you have to be buying VERY right, like 50% of FMV in the luxury domain for it to make sense. Perhaps that is the reason for the chilly reply. I think as the economy gets worse the pain of paying a $20,000/month note will get to be too much for many people and Marco's option/auction idea will be attractive. The high cotton is coming in the luxury area. The great thing about Marco is that he's always innovating and bringing new things to the table. He was teaching sponsorships at the round-robin auctions as a secondary income streams about 20 months ago. I heard Ron Legrand mention it first about a month ago.

You have to watch Marco though, he's what I call the " PT Barnum" of creative real estate. I've told that to his face and he laughed. I've seen him pitch his coaching program and the powerpoint slides only talk about the $2,000 up front fee and somehow the $200/month on-going charge never makes it into the presentation until you give them your credit card. Monumentally sleazy! All in all, though I like Marco, because of his innovation, but keep your wallet close.

His repeat bootcamp charge of $500 for past graduates is a great bargain, because he is always teaching new stuff and has new programs, such as his financing program for the advertising costs for a formal auction that you would do with a professional auctioneer for houses over about $4M. A real deal if you've got a good deal under option and can't raise the $25-50K it will take to market and auction the thing. I am not currently pursuing this, but it is on my agenda for the near future as I think it is a great line of business in the single-family domain. When I am eligible to post URLs I'll give you a re guru review site that is good.

Clay

I was considering the boot camp but the $5000 was a little much for me at this time. I noticed that you are allowed to bring a guest. Would you like to split the cost and add me as your partner, guest or (as they do not use those specific words) Significant other (their words).

I did see some negative reviews on the internet. The one that alarmed me the most was from one that attended the seminar and when he approached Marco about do a deal with him, he was told that he had to get hard money on his own and they wanted to have him sign a contract taking 80% of the profits. In his presentation (to buy his boot camp) he says over and over not to invest more than $100 and he will front the $50,000 in marketing money to the auctioneer and the split would be 50/50. That was a post from a year ago so maybe things have changed? By the way, I found that on goggle when I typed in "Marco Kozlowski Reviews".

The JV hook sells a lot of courses. They do not do deals.......

His return rate is huge as he sells air basically. The JV hook keeps people working past the return rate

I have taken Marco's Boot Camp. Innovative and whole different approach to Realestate Investing. Not only does he provide a great boot camp but you take away marketing and negotiating skills, that can be used for any product or service. What he has done is provide information. It is up to any individual on how they apply it and what level they take it. Add passion and perseverance

does anyone else notice how 90% of the people applauding this program have less than 5 posts??

Hi I'm James and I have 1 post here at bigger pockets I have taken this course and it's the most awesomeness and totally rad course around. Forget the $10K price tag you will make that up in 50 years or more depending on what you do. Plus Marco is always there for you for 1 minute out of 365 days of the year.

So go ahead and go to this most for sure totally awesome rad bishin great wonderful boot camp I promise you will be disappointed.

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Stay home. I got to go to an event about 5 years ago or maybe longer in Orlando. I did not pay, but man did he make some money. I seen people flying with credit cards for coaching programs, credit repair, private money events, entity structuring. I remember that my wife and son went with me. We kind of made it a fun trip to get away from home. Well when we arrived at the hotel we got in the elevator and people had already signed up. The event was titled Big Fat Checks. My wife got super upset as she thought it said Big Fat Chicks. Goes to show you what marketing can do.

It was a good networking event. Got to see some people that I have not seen since then. But overall I would say PASS.

A friend just sent me this link so I thought I would share it with all of you. A rating of F with the Better Business Bureau. No local address verified. Clueless.

http://www.vegasbbb.org/bbb_rated_acc_rpt.asp?bbbid=74965&tr=rated&lg=F&ex=11%2C15%2C26

Hello There. I have taken Marco's Bootcamp and implemented everything what he says in his course. Marco even interviewed me in one of his calls about how many lead I generated using his system. I have to tell you that his marketing does work but I should caution you that once you have the agreement and are going to the next level to get the property sold, Marco's system does not work. When Marco sells his course he says he would stand by you and if you implement his system and are not able to be sucessful he would return the money. Good Luck with that. He is a big scam artist and you cannot get anything back from this scam artist. Please do not take his course and waste your money. I tried and tried and tried to get my money back and gave up. His karma is going to catch up with him one day.

I attended the course a few times and am now ready to jump right in and start making money. I paid for the boot camp and paid to become an affiliate. It was no where near $20,000. I'm sorry to hear about some of your bad experiences but I believe this is probably the best real estate investing system out there. I'ts a very easy system that's all set up for you. You just follow the steps and don't deviate from it.
So far, I've hired a marketing specialist, subscribed to the Pat Live phone answering service, and found my first Realtor to work with. I'm absolutely confident that I can make a lot of money using this system. I'm going to be bold and set a goal of $500,000 in profit over the next year. :cool: I'll do some weekly or bi-weekly updates to show my progress. I don't expect to close my first deal until about the beginning of March of 2011. I still have to hire a negotiator and a sales specialist. I should be able to send out my first marketing campaign by the middle of January. Wish me luck. :wink:

Chester