All Forum Posts by: Ashley Daneman

 Hi Chiara,

Her course does teach you her way of analyzing properties and local trends by zipcode, but what I discovered after meeting local investors is that everyone has their own way of analyzing properties and their own interests in the different neighborhoods. So, you could ask people to sit down with you and show you how they do it. Most REI's I've met are very generous people in terms of sharing their knowledge and contacts.

In terms of the local market, there are websites that help you find good areas to invest in and you can get a simple analysis from Redfin like this: https://www.redfin.com/city/16661/MO/St-Louis/housing-market

But, I think a lot of cities like mine probably have a ton of nuance in terms of everything that goes into understanding the local market street by street. I learned mine by driving around, looking up a bunch of properties online and looking at a bunch in person, listening to everything people said at the meetups and asking a ton of questions to local investors.

If you have the money, her course is a bit of a shortcut to learn what you need to know, but it by no means is everything you need to flip in a local market. No one in the course can advise you on that, unless of course, you meet local flippers who are also in her course, but they are usually also beginners.

I joined the program in November of 2022 after doing a zoom meeting with the sales team. I told her, I only need to make $50k this year, and she was like, that will be "easy." I figured a $8k investment was no issue if it was going to be easy to make $50 within the year. That was not the case.

I agree with @Tara Charlton that the basic information is useful, but I too, got the most value from connecting locally with my REI meetup groups. I also agree that the "coaching" is not great and there is no space to critique the concepts or express any form of dissent. There is a lot of throwing your questions back in your face and what felt like yelling through the keyboard. She appears so dang cool and friendly on the podcast, but my feelings were genuinely hurt on multiple occasions in the FB group by the coaches responses to my honest questions. I would have given them this feedback directly, but they are so defensive that I figured it wouldn't be received well and I'd be wasting my time.

Another woman connected with me via FB to get my opinion on the course and she told me that her salesperson said that all the women who go through the course are 100% successful. Yeah, nope. I think less than half of the FB group even posts at all. I can personally vouch for two other women in my city who were in the course. It's been nearly a year and neither one has bought a house. The one has been hustling hard just like I have, and the struggle is real. But, if you struggle in the group, you'll have your butt handed to you. If you're not successful, it has nothing to do with real estate in general, your specific market, or interest rates, or a small personal REI network, it's that YOU aren't doing enough. I had a couple other women from the group reach out to me and they felt the same way. I'm grateful that other real estate experts online can at least validate that real estate investing is being affected by current economic events.

Anyway, I do not recommend Debby DeBerry's program. I'm super sad that such a great idea and content is damaged by the quality of the leadership. But, I'm happy to help you in any way I can if you want to connect and talk!

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