Ok where do I start? I received an invitation for the first seminar and it was using peter and dave from flipping boston as the figureheads to earn real estate success!! We all know who they are and enjoy the show so hey lets go see what its all about. Free giveaways!!! Prizes!!! Refreshments!!!. Well it was at a ****** hotel in Bremerton, the refreshments were two pitchers of water and crappy (small) bag of mixed snacks, I got a dollar store mp3 player at the end. Still I saw it through, and listened to the first part of stupid quotes from famous people as the main act. I tried to keep an open mind, he started talking about 500k of funding that would cost 1-3 percent, hey pretty cool. Then how you can directly talk to asset managers at struggling banks and buy properties at amazing savings. I was sold, only cost $1,997 for the 3 day seminar that will make your dreams come true, money back guarantee. I asked him directly, this is going to be training not some other crap to get me to buy the "super duper" training later? He said yes its all you will need to be successful, and you have a money back guarantee... He lied and lied and lied...
Ok I have been to 2 days of the 3 day training. It has been over 16 hours of selling and manipulation with a little bit of training mixed in. I swear the first 3 hours was ******** and fluff and the trainer promising we would get to the good stuff soon. There is 60 people in the room, that's 120k of money we have spent, its the cheapest low class event I have ever been to, there was coffee and water, that's it. Had to walk by the Mitsubishi convention to get to our ballroom and they were doing it right, soda, cookies, chips, hats, and lots of other swag, parking was validated etc..... What previous posters were saying about credit card balances is true, that was our assignment at lunch which didn't come until 1:45, we started at 8:30 am. Well anyway this seminar was not set up to give anyone tools to be successful at real estate just 3 days to tell you sob stories and pull at your heart strings to get the 23-43k investment that they really want... Oh but joy, you might get to meet and learn the real stuff someday if you get a second mortgage to afford it.
3rd day coming up tomorrow, from previous posts it sounds like that's when the real hard selling comes. I'm expecting all kinds of hard selling, they will probably start telling people they are losers and don't want to succeed and if they really loved their family they would do anything it takes. The trainer says the 3 pillars are... Is it legal? Is it ethical? Is it moral? Ok well it should not be legal, and it is definitely not ethical and moral.
One more note. The trainer was talking about negative people always trying to keep you down, which is true, you need to surround yourself with good people, my motto is "it is hard to soar like an eagle if you hang out with a bunch of turkeys" also if you roll around with dogs you are gonna get some fleas.... there is a million sayings, you get the point. Anyway he told a story that related to that by saying he was walking down a dock and some guys were crabbing and in the bucket a crab was about to escape, he said "hey there is a crab about to get out of your bucket" the guy says its ok, don't worry about it, and then as he watches the other crabs in the bucket grab the crab about to escape and pulls him back in the bucket. Cool moral, negative people going to pull you back down. However he told the story in the first person like it was him that experienced it, well not true, in the peter and dave training binder they say the same story about lobsters.....
Anyway that's about all the steam I got for now. Thanks for listening, interested what you others have to say.