The Guru Circus...

[Caleb Mclamb]

Hello BP!

I went to a seminar tonight at a nice hotel in Pensacola Florida. The man on stage gave good information. Very very limited information, but solid information. He then proceeded to tell us that their boot camp in 3 weeks was a whopping $1200!! BUT WAIT, if you signed up tonight you got $1000 off. That's right, for only $200 you AND A GUEST could attend the 3 day seminar and learn everything in the world. It was truly sad to watch some people excitedly run to the back, others skeptically march, and others still sit with their jaw open unsure if they would take the steal of a deal or leave feeling unfulfilled. 

I went just to watch the circus, and I wasn't disappointed. At first the info was solid and vague but it got more and more "salespitchy" as the night wore on. 

I did however have the opportunity to talk to two couples and tell them that if they were truely interested in this they needed to go to biggerpockets.com! There they could find all the info that man would talk about at his boot camp AND LOTS LOTS MORE. One shrugged but the other wrote it down. I wish I'de had cards with BP info on them or a tshirt or something!

It seemed to me that their boot camp would have good solid info, but there is no need to pay for it when it is available right here on BP!

[Pavel Sakurets]

Caleb, I attended over 20+ boot camps within last 10 years and from every boot camp, I learned something that I implemented in my business. My Co is one of the largest and most active investors in MN, every week we buy or sell several properties and I still go to boot camps, at least twice per year. My goal when I go to a boot camp is to learn only ONE thing that I didn't know about before and if I learn ONLY ONE thing, I consider this time well spent. It's not only the info and presenter, it's people that you meet, it's ideas that could mix with your ideas and synergize in something bigger. If I have not attended boot camps, it would take me much longer to be where I'm now.

I learned about BP only this week, and I'm loving it, and agree that this is a very good site and has a lot of smart people and the info is free.