Why do all these “guru” methods seem to rely on naive, uneducated, or desperate sellers? I mean if a seller has any real estate knowledge at all isn’t he going to realize that earnest money that is returnable to the buyer for any reason at all at any time isn’t really earnest money? And never being “at risk” is it even sufficient to legally bind a seller? And won’t parties involved see red flags waived by all this “out of space” subterfuge?
Also, I’ve noticed that the unknowledgeable persons who are most likely to be suckered into spending time and money on these “programs” all have a basic gullibility that leads to them making comments that have remained remarkably consistent over the last 40years. They somehow think that for $197, or $1970, or $19700, they’ve somehow acquired some methodology, strategy, knowledge or “the secret sauce” that will ensure their investing or business success, and that the experienced, knowledgeable, and successful real estate investors who point out the obvious faults “just don’t get it”.
Once someone has paid, what to them is a good deal of money, and invested a good deal of time, and become emotionally involved with a particular mentor and his program, they’ll fight like hell to defend it. It’s as if pointing out any negatives about the guru, or his system, is a personal attack on themselves. In 6 months they will be licking their wounds having given up on the system, now being that much further (by the amount spent, amount lost investing, wasted time, and emotional devastation) behind in realizing their goals and dreams
