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Posted almost 14 years ago

Wonder

Years of watching all the various rehab shows have sort of laid a bit of a foundation as to what sort of events might happen but there is one thing that doesn't seem to get addressed much: real estate programs.  
How legitimate can these be?  Armando used to basically use the TV shows as paid for advertising for his courses and even the brothers from Connecticut started dabbling towards the end before everything blew up, but in all honesty how reputable are these?  Nowadays, the only times I ever see them mentioned is on a latenight infomercial talking about their free seminar and how I need to reserve my seat now or else I'll end up disappointing my future children and children's children by somehow ruining my family legacy.  I understand that high pressure sales tactics are often the norm in an industry like this one, but it sort of comes off as a bit transparent when it comes to the services and education aspect of things.
There seems to also be a bevy of information available from all over the place regarding every element of potential deal making - whether its in "paper flips," wholesaling, or actual full rehabs.  Unfortunately for most, it seems like the most readily available chunks of information - or maybe they are just marketed and advertised in favor of so heavily to skew stats their way- seem to be in the form of free/$.99 ebooks that give you vague bits of information and never really go into much specificity.  Only toward the end of the fontsize-30 works do you get the "if you'd like to know more sign up for our" site/service/program/class.  
Obviously there is no single magic bullet that will get people up and running, but jeez, the amount of muck that people are having to try and trek through is a bit exhausting and this is only made all the more annoying when some of the information is purposely obtuse and there ONLY to sell you something else.

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