My Beef with Gurus Part 5 of 5

Can you imagine charging someone to teach them how to build a house...if you're not even a builder?

Or how about paying someone to teach you to fly a plane, who doesn't actually fly planes?

Sounds weird huh?

Well, that's exactly what some of the guru's do when they offer their weekend bootcamp courses. 

They claim they're going to teach you how to make big money buying foreclosed homes, or buying notes, or 10 other ways to make money in real estate.  Except...they don't actually DO what they are supposed to be teaching YOU!

How would you like to pay out thousands of dollars to learn how to supposedly do something, from someone that doesn't actually do what they are getting paid to teach you?

I know, sounds confusing!

There is a book that I highly recommend called "The Richest Man in Babylon" that you've probably heard of before.  In it, there is a passage about a man giving his money to a brickmaker to invest in rich jewels, hoping for a big return on his investment.  Well, the brickmaker ends up buying pieces of glass, and the man loses all of his investment.  Obviously the man is going to lose his money, because why would you give your money to a brickmaker to invest in jewels?  The guy is a brickmaker, not a jewel expert.  

This same story relates to trying to learn real estate investing from someone that doesn't actually do it.....or that isn't successful at it!

My course is ONLY on lease options, and even more specifically, my lease option PROGRAM.  

That's it.  That's ALL I teach because that's what I actually DO.  Everyday!

If you want to learn wholesale note buying..I'm not your guy! 

There is no way I'm going to pretend to be an expert in something that I don't actively participate in, just so I can sell some books. 

And if you are looking for education and training on real estate, then you need to do your homework, and make sure the person you are about to pay to train you actively practices what they preach, AND that they are successful at it.  Don't be fooled by they pretty DVD cases, and all the glitz put on by the presenter.  You want to learn from someone that actually practices what they preach.  Make them prove to you that they are active and successful in the trade they are going to teach you.