If you are a cash heavy investor, then it might be alright, but you are gambling on appreciation and that is something that you can not know for sure. 

In my mind $8k is more money than I'm willing to gamble with and the course felt like too much of a gamble (let's put it this way..

With all the competition from DC, MD, PA, NY, DE they are doomed until they find a new business model not involving gambling. 

You know it's spam.

Why gamble with your money?

I'm impressed that you're not willing to gamble on getting into  a bad situation due to low reserves.

...and I think it's scammy and dishonest that they either spam these threads with their own sock-puppets, or encourage thread responses from single-post-obviously-signed-up-only-to-post-about-F&G-on-this-thread-people (is it in exchange for something?

Just don't want to spam this thread with non-BP products...

You are doing a gamble play that value add and rent increases will eventually get the asset cash flowing.If it doesn't you just are trapped in a tax write off property.Some investors love speculating but I am not one of them.

I don't know if this post would be considered spam or not (if so, please feel free to delete it) but if anyone is interested, I run a private free Facebook group called "Land Motivation" for raw land investors which is currently made up of many former and current members of Mark Podolsky's Land Geek program.