Rental Property Investor · Montreal, Quebec · Member since 2014 · 100 posts · 42 votes
I would love to get your feedback. I often go to real estate seminars in my city of Montreal & the seminar usually lasts for 2 hours or so and they jam in as much information as possible & at the end of the seminar, they mention that they're having a 3 day seminar & try to get you to join for $1000 or $2000, etc...
I joined one this past weekend for the first time ever. It's Scott Mcgillivray's seminar (Very popular Canadian TV show host and real estate investor and company - keyspire owner) and so far I'm loving it and learning a lot. Tomorrow is the last day of the seminar but now they're trying to sell everyone on becoming a member, which is upwards of 15K. A lot of people seem to be showing interest in it & I'm sure Keyspire is going to get at least half of attendees to purchase the package deal.
What I want to know is if any of you have done these type of full on memberships with companies and spent 15K, 20K, 35K etc to be a part of networks like this and if you feel it's worked for you?
Hey @Lisa Lavie. Do you happen to speak French? If you do, I suggest you look at the CIIQ (Club Investisseurs Immobilier du Québec). Their training is way cheaper than what you are describing and could bring you everything you need. Always remember that what you need is just the basics of real estate. What you do with it will determine if you are going to succeed in RE or not. I'm pretty sure 90% of the people enrolling in these super expensive trainings never buy a real estate deal afterwards. Good luck!
No one that commented here had ever thought it was worth anything close to costs, for Any of these programs which are basically all the same “program”.
Have you ever tried out any of the paid seminars? They all seem to have their niche and this one seemed geared towards what I'm looking for but yeah the cost of the program is a lot for sure. I wasn't planning on joining at the moment, just wanted to get feedback. Thank you for yours!! :)
Never personally been to one of these seminars but there’s a ton of posts about them. They all sound pretty much the same....draw people in by advertising a recognized name from TV (i.e. Scott McGillivray, Than Merrill, Scott Yancey, etc). Doesn’t matter who because the big name person won’t actually be there. Once the attendees are at the seminar, provide a little bit of info (the hook) and then upsell upsell upsell (the real point of all these seminars) and try to get you to sign up for some sort of “masters program” (usually to the tune of $10k-$40k).
Hey @Lisa Lavie. Do you happen to speak French? If you do, I suggest you look at the CIIQ (Club Investisseurs Immobilier du Québec). Their training is way cheaper than what you are describing and could bring you everything you need. Always remember that what you need is just the basics of real estate. What you do with it will determine if you are going to succeed in RE or not. I'm pretty sure 90% of the people enrolling in these super expensive trainings never buy a real estate deal afterwards. Good luck!
@Lisa Lavie I agree with Guillaume, I'd rather get a bad haircut than take one of those course. You will learn as much if not more just from the BP Podcast. The best way to learn is by doing it and if you have questions, you can ask other fellow investor and i'm sure most of them will gladly give you an answer.
@Lisa Lavie I agree with Guillaume, I'd rather get a bad haircut than take one of those course. You will learn as much if not more just from the BP Podcast. The best way to learn is by doing it and if you have questions, you can ask other fellow investor and i'm sure most of them will gladly give you an answer.