Any thoughts on J. Scott Sheel?

Question

Anyone have personal experience with the J. Scott Sheel commercial real estate program? what are your opinions?

Bob Washington · Answer

Both I and one of my partners attended Scott's when he was first starting his national bootcamps.

He did not have a homestudy at that time.
If he does now, and it includes his software for analysis of commercial properties, I'd say consider it.
We still use the software.
By comparison, Dave Lindahul[sp]  at that time at least, concentrated on mostly just apartments [though my partner liked Dave's like presentation best]
Scott covered most all commercial, not just apartments, and his wife, a former commercial lender for one of the top 3 banks, covered lending [pre-2008, so.....].  Don't know if she still presents with him.

Of the top commercial presenters, we found Scott's the most comprehensive HOWEVER, when we attended--back when he was first starting, 
he missed a WHOLE Important section in the manual [he ran out of time]
and the manual, back then at least, was just an OUTLINE of topics in which attendees had to fill in the details

...and there was no home-study, at that time--
add that to how little even the most intelligent of us retain from live bootcamps, and I'd always suggest the home-study materials from any guru, rather than live [if Scott now offers it]
...unless you can clarify that the oversized manual now contains all the notes of the live presentation, or an audio is now included [it wasn't when we attended]

otherwise I can not recommend the live bootcamp,
unless it's for the analysis software, which we still use both for buyers proposals, and investor presentations when fundraising.

That said, if you're thinking of just apartments, you might look into an infinitely less expensive book:
"Real Estate Recipe for Buying Apartments"
[or similar]
by Brian Friedman....

Hope that helps

Bob

Paul Kestenbaum · Answer

No one has this course??