All Forum Posts by: Autumn Faulkner

I'm enrolled in a real estate education group where I have access to an advisory line and a coach that I get 1 meeting with every week for 1/2 an hour.  I've been doing countless training's, seminars, webinars, etc...plus working 12hour+ days 7 days a week.  After all of this I still am feeling confused and lost.  I am a hard worker and I believe in real estate investing as a career not a job but I feel like I need someone who would be willing to help me start out.  I can co wholesale or do other labor for them in exchange for the mentoring. I feel like every webinar I watch they give you some great tips and say how much they want to help you out but than at the end of the video they say to get the "meat and potato's" of the information you need to kick start your business you need to pay $1000.  Well I've already invested all the money I can into this other educational group so I'm not willing to pay $1000 to another program until I can make a profit myself.  I am an honest and humble person.  If you would be willing to work with me I can promise that I will do my best to repay you in some form.  Thank You for your time!  

@Brian Gibbons Thank You, I will check it out and I would love to chat about what I have tried and what I have learned because I have learned a lot from my training's.  What I would like to see is my actions that I've learned from the training's turn into profit and that's where the disconnect seems to be...I am following the training's and there teachings but not getting any real results as of yet.  One of the main reasons I am frustrated with the program is that when they were trying to get me to invest into their program they all but assured me that at the very most it would only take 2 months to get my first deal done if I turned this into my full time career.  Also another frustrating point is that every adviser on my advisory line is different and when I call in for advice on how to proceed they ask me why I took action the way I did and when I tell them I took the advice of a fellow adviser they than say well here's how you should've done it...  

Thank You Paul!! I appreciate your advice!

First I want to start out with an introduction on my real estate journey thus far...

I was in a dead end job living barely pay check to pay check when I received a flyer in the mail about real estate investing, I had received these in the past but never paid attention to them...why I bothered with this one I don't know, call it good timing on their part...with nothing to lose except a couple of hours and $10 worth of gas I decided to attend.  Long story short I have no background in Real estate, business, marketing, etc..I attended the 3 day seminar and was sucked into paying the $30,000 for the education.  I justified the payment with the fact that I'm going at this alone without a partner and have no idea how to run a business or how to invest in real estate so I would need the training and education that the program offers.  

Well 4 months later I am still where I was 4 months ago only now I'm $50,000 more in debt with no profit or deals to show for it.  I have a coaching service that has been provided to me but it appears that everyone on the advisory side is telling me one thing and everyone in the real world is saying another...

Did I make a HUGE mistake?  I have spoken with many people and everyone tells me I'm on the right track and I feel like I'm so close but yet so far.  

So my big question is how can I make money immediately using these resources that I've paid for??  I have used up my cushion fund because I did not think it would take this long to at the very least get a finder's fee...