Loving the Free Educational content provided by PIP Group

Morristown, NJ. · Member since 2019 · 9 posts · 2 votes

I have been into Flipping houses for a few years now and I truly enjoy it! I have recently (I know, I'm late) learned about Investing with tax liens... When I found out about this method of investing I went digging through the internet for more educational content. I stumbled across the company PIP Group. The PIP Group provides all of its content for free, and I really enjoy the webinars that break down almost everything I needed to learn about Tax Liens!

Has anyone else checked this company out? and what is your favorite source of educational content when you are searching for some answers?

Thanks a bunch

Don

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Ned CareyPro Member

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Investor · Baltimore, MD · Member since 2008 · 17k+ posts · 13k+ votes

The previous three posts are from members who joined yesterday. The have blank profiles and have each only posted once, - a positive review of PIP. (Note: one duplicate post was hidden.)

My personal belief is these are fake profiles prompted by PIP. The odds that randomly three people who just happened to work with PIP, joined the site the same day, stumbled upon this post, and found it to be the only thread worth contributing to is statistically . . . well lets just say unlikely.

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Lena Sells
Member since 2018 · 2 posts · 0 votes
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@Joe Splitrock and @Ned Carey my name is Lena Sells and it is obvious I am the wife of Charles Sells. I do work for PIP as well. I definitely believe that this website is very bias who can post and what they can post and accusations like this that the accounts are fake are just out of place. After seeing the post from @Melissa Kirchhoff a few of our real estates agents decided to write their opinion as far as doing business with PIP. I am not sure why Ned jumps immediately on any feed that has to do with PIP but again seems that BP allows this type of behavior here. With an easy search of those names in the states that they say they are, anybody interested to check these people out can find them and get the public data of properties that these agents in fact sold for PIP and its clients. Also, not all the people have the amount of time that some of you do to sit on these sites and write reviews all day. Melissa to this day has not sold a single property for PIP and in fact has no knowledge of the IL tax lien law. She is just making incorrect assumptions about the stuff that we post. See attached info directly from the Will County website. Feel free to google the Will County website and enter this parcel or any parcels for that matter of fact to check the compounding effect. I have no clue who some of these people are but the ones that in fact posted that they sold property for PIP - they did for a fact. It seems that we are going to have to post facts to every single post so Ned does not stalk our reviews and continues to write negative reviews when in fact he has never done business with PIP.
@Steve Harlow has been a client of ours for a long time and has been on other threads here on BP. We have sold another property for him just this week through Brad Page that posted here earlier (one of the so called fake accounts).
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Lena Sells
Member since 2018 · 2 posts · 0 votes
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@Joe Splitrock we do not sell notes as a matter of fact. We are a servicing agent and have many clients. Like with any investment, there is always risk. PIP does provide a lot of educational webinars on the specific states that we invest in. All those webinars are free to anyone that wants to watch them. I am more than happy to discuss with anyone for educational purpose the risk that are associated with any of the investments that PIP provides. As a service provider we do charge a fee for the job that we do like any other business. We do not hard sell and in fact do not take investor funds unless they truly understand what it is that they are investing in.
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Ned CareyPro Member
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Investor · Baltimore, MD · Member since 2008 · 17k+ posts · 13k+ votes
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@Lena Sells I apologize to you and the other agents who posted for saying I believe they are fake profiles. I had little basis for saying that.
So lets assume they are real profiles. It is still clear that they were prompted by PIP or there was a coordinated effort to post here. That is know as being a shill and is against our rules.
If you were a regular reader here you would see we usually have a hands off attitude when there are disputes. But we also allow our readers to express their opinions even if those opinions are not liked by some. Posts get edited or deleted when it evolves to personal attacks. You and your husband are free to reply to criticisms here. Charles has posted here in the past replying to criticisms of PIP and frankly I think, he hurt his own credibility.
Again if you were a regular reader here you might realize we have "Keyword alerts" so I read most and comment on many threads that have to do with tax sale. You will see I am quite consistent on being skeptical of anyone promoting tax sale as a middleman or instructor.
Absolutely The owners of the site believe that open dialog, even if uncomfortable for some, is a good thing for our readers. Our readers are smart enough to realize who is credible and who is not.
As pointed out above I do not 'stalk' your reviews. I have not even written a negative review of PIP, exactly because I have never done business with PIP. Go back and read my posts. I do not directly criticize PIP. I do express skepticism about tax sale promoters in general and give reason why I am skeptical.
The above is what I refer to as lack credibility. By your own evidence the interest continues to accrue at simple interest. It does not compound as you above and your informational video say. You would think someone in an interest rate based business would know the difference between simple interest and compound interest.
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Joe SplitrockPro Member
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Rental Property Investor · Sioux Falls, SD · Member since 2015 · 9k+ posts · 18k+ votes
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@Lena Sells
None of the posts have been removed, so you and your company have been given latitude. My advice to anyone interested in working with your company is to reach out directly to the users giving positive feedback to talk to them. I also recommend doing a Google search for other websites where users have reviewed the company.
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Mark Douglass
Member since 2019 · 1 post · 0 votes
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Here is what I know about PIP Group which may help investors. Here are my direct and unfiltered comments:
I am a Realtor in the Augusta, Georgia market. I have been in real estate for 14 years after retiring from Army. I reluctantly started to list their flips 3 years ago and am glad I entered the game. I was apprehensive at first because there are many "investors" and flippers out there who are clueless. I was sought after in my area by many over the years due to being a top producer. PIP Group relies on the Realtors and a contractor to check each property before they place any bids to protect investors from money pits or areas that are overly difficult to resell. To date, I have sold nearly 25 of their properties and have another 4 under contract. The challenge is to maintain a list of good contractors covering all areas of home repairs and do enough volume to keep costs low. I was pleasantly surprised that PIP Group uses a detailed checklist on what a flipped house should look like before it goes on the market. They cut no corners and always address every problem. They actually share photos of the progress with their investors as renovations are being done. I have had all satisfied buyers which is no easy task. I trust PIP Group and think they have a solid business model for investing in flips.
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