When should you stop investing in Real Estate and become a Guru? Which gurus make more money selling masterclasses than they ever did as an investor?

Once you have failed at real estate investing, that is the time to become a guru.

Apparently, the answer for some is right after being blackballed from the industry with over $2M in judgments against you, well thats atleast in the note space. A self-proclaimed expert recently dismissed my participation on BiggerPockets as a “waste of time.” This is the same individual now selling a class on calling banks to buy notes — a strategy that sounds good in theory but is detached from how the market actually works. Anyone actively buying notes knows: Banks rarely sell directly to individuals When they do, it’s often at or near par pricing Most loans are traded through whole loan desks, who the owns we work with are moving over $1B/month They also claim “20 years of experience” — yet I’ve seen no public record of a single trade or acquisition in recent years. Since I started, I’ve built a $50M+ company buying real loans, navigating real legal challenges, and actually buying loans - but Guru's only tell others stories. As you know there’s a growing trend of people making more money selling courses than they ever did as operators, especially now that real estate is not easy. But when someone fails in the space, then rebrands as an authority to sell a strategy that doesn’t work in today’s market — that’s not education, that’s opportunism. I’ll keep showing up on BiggerPockets, LinkedIn, and wherever people actually want to learn. Sharing real experiences is never a waste of time. Misleading people for a quick buck? That is.

Some of the lies some of these “mentors” tell are so outrageous that you just can’t believe anyone believes them - but people do. One particular mentor claims he never lost money on a deal - however he filed BK numerous times. When called out on it he claimed it was a “technicality”. Today’s gurus aren’t real estate investors, they’re salespersons/pitch people with “marketing” plans and strategies produced by real estate mentoring companies operating out of Las Vegas, Nevada or Provo, Utah. Even if the strategy they teach WERE valid, it still can not be implemented by the vast majority of their “students” because the students lack the knowledge and understanding and experience in real estate FUNDAMENTALS needed to be able to successfully implement ANY real estate investment strategy. The people who buy into these mentorship’s are trying to “shortcut” the necessary time and effort it takes to acquire enough knowledge and experience to have the foundation for success. Add on the fact that 90%or more of the strategies taught are either or not valid, can’t be scaled, and are limited to specific markets during g specific economic conditions.

If these gurus took a truth serum, I would wager that less than 2% of the people who pay for these programs recover the costs they spent on these programs. You have a far better odds at betting on red or black at the roulette table.

I put a guru into my ai program and found the guru he stole his program from then the guru he stole his from and so on. Somehow there must be Carlton Sheets dna at the bottom of that rabbit hole.

I call them dream merchants every one of them follow the same script from RE gurus to MLM to Tony Robbins.. start off with picture of the wife and kiddos and the reason why.. tug at the heart strings as everyone wants to spend more time with the kiddos . then it just progress's from there its a well honed presentation.

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