I’m new to real estate investing and looking to learn as much as I can. I’d really appreciate any recommendations for reputable investment seminars—whether online or in person. Ideally something beginner-friendly but still solid on real-world strategies.
If you’ve attended one that helped you or changed your outlook, I’d love to hear about it. Thanks in advance!
I’m new to real investing and looking to learn as much as I can. I’d really appreciate any recommendations for reputable investment seminars—whether online or in person. Ideally something beginner-friendly but still solid on real-world strategies.
If you’ve attended one that helped you or changed your outlook, I’d love to hear about it. Thanks in advance!
I have less of an answer for you, and more a word of caution that many seminars are designed to prey on people like you (the newbie).
They will present you with an “incredible opportunity”. The first seminar will likely be “free”…. Where they will just what your appetite for their bigger seminar coming up. The 2nd seminar may be $100-500… for a multi-day presentation …who is to say… but whatever it costs… it’s easily obtainable for the typical person looking to invest in real estate. At this 2nd seminar comes the ‘big pitch’… be a part of ‘the club’… (it will have a fancy name) … maybe “master mind group” where they will promise the world to you if you join… it’s only <insert crazy price here>… one of the ones I went to was upwards of $40-50,000.. and they hammered it home every 15-20 minutes
The thing you have to realize is that there is often a ton of psychology that goes into these presentations to get you to act and pull out your checkbook. It’s just short of a time-share presentation sometimes!
So just be very cautious and try to view what you are watching with an element of skepticism as to why they are telling you what you are hearing from them. It will seem like it is a no-lose proposition I promise you!
There are plenty of people that will probably post here that this seminar or that seminar is great… and I’m sure that many are! But at the end of the day, most seminars are there to make the presenter lots of money sharing their “method”. Just keep that in mind.
You can learn a great deal scavenging bigger pockets. Very little is new in real estate. I would encourage you to use the Bigger Pockets forums and to search for whatever seminar you’re interested in. It is highly likely that you will find people have already spoken about it and you’ll be able to get a feel for whether it is worth it or not. You can also just use the Internet and search that way as well. If you really want to turn up the volume on the negative side of things, try including the words “and scam”.
Again, I’m not making commentary on anyone’s particular seminar. But you have to realize what each person‘s role is. Theirs is to present the opportunity… yours is to buy it.