What?!! Yep, I said it. The guru programs work. Despite people\u2019s skepticism, despite the negative reviews online, and despite the cost of the programs, the guru programs actually do work\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026if you work them right.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If I say they work, how come they don\u2019t seem to or why do they get knocked so hard?<\/p>\n Because most people who go to them don\u2019t work them right (hence my follow-up statement a minute ago).<\/p>\n How do they not work them right?<\/p>\n It can be any of the following, and maybe even some others I\u2019m not thinking of:<\/p>\n Let me explain a little bit about why success in general doesn\u2019t happen overnight, much less a guru program. You know I love explaining in visuals!<\/p>\n That winning advice is founded on other ideas. That \u2018one really cool piece of guru advice\u2019 did not just one day jump up and smack the guru in the face. Well, actually it probably did, but not before the guru had learned several other key things that led up to it- we\u2019ll call those pieces \u201cmisc info\u201d.<\/p>\n In reality, there are way more than four pieces of misc info that leads to each big piece of advice.<\/p>\n Related:<\/strong> The 4 Levels of Learning in Real Estate Investment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n How many? who knows.<\/p>\n The point is, amazing ideas don\u2019t just come out of nowhere. And while piecing together several big pieces of advice to make something work, you won\u2019t truly succeed or go that far without also having misc info under your belt.<\/p>\n A guru can\u2019t give you this. He doubtfully even remembers what all of the misc info that led to him figuring out the big picture even was. You have to gain and build your own misc info.<\/p>\n You have to build your own empire and that empire will be different from anyone else\u2019s empire. Even if the end result is similar, your journey to that end result will always be different.<\/p>\n If that is true, how could you expect to only listen to one person and gain all the answers?<\/p>\n You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n We all have our own brains. It\u2019s a bit worthless to not use them and instead hope that someone else out there will give us all the answers. Instead of relying on the end-game advice of the guru, use what he teaches you to formulate you own misc info so you can then put it all together to formulate your own guru advice.<\/p>\n Trust me, you can become your own guru.<\/em><\/p>\n My personal advice?<\/p>\n Don\u2019t completely rule out gurus. Surprisingly, most of them actually do know what they are talking about. People can say what they will about Robert Kiyosaki and the Rich Dad programs, but I can promise you if it weren\u2019t for him, I wouldn\u2019t be where I am today. Not even close!<\/p>\n Does that mean I only take advice from him?<\/p>\n No way.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve read books from several authors, I\u2019ve taken online courses, I follow blogs of several different people, and I am open to any new guru advice that I find fitting to my goals and to my life and can help me along (I\u2019ve never understood the mentality of letting your ego stop you from taking advice from people around you. I think it\u2019s much quicker to let people give me options on how to succeed.Why figure it all out by myself? Seems a bit limiting, don\u2019t you think?).<\/p>\n Related:<\/strong> 7 Real Estate Investing Lessons We Can Learn From Tony Robbins<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n As far as the high-dollar guru programs, I won\u2019t rule them out but it will take a lot more for me to go that route. Those expensive programs are usually tailored to one specific avenue and I learned a long time ago that I do better with taking pieces of advice from several people in order to concoct my own solution.<\/p>\n But you may not be like me and those programs could be what sends you to the top. I actually do recommend them for some fields. Regardless, here are my own pieces of advice about the guru programs for you to leave with:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Have you ever taken a “guru course”?<\/em> Share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n Note from BiggerPockets Founder, Joshua Dorkin:<\/b> BiggerPockets was founded because I STRONGLY believe that there are far better alternatives to learning about real estate investing than spending your hard earned money on a traveling education salesman (guru). Any information you can pay hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars for from a guru can be found from a local mentor of through various other means<\/a> (including our site) for free. While I’m staunchly against the promises made by the seminars, bootcamps, and other programs offered by these individuals, I do appreciate that some people find them to have value and as such, I thought it important to allow this opinion piece and others like it to be shared here on the site. If you’re going to spend your money on gurus, do your homework — research, ask your peers, and before you give them your money, know that no guru is going to make you a success — that job is up to you.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a dirty one alright. Are you ready for it? They work. What?!! Yep, I said it. The guru programs work. 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