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I made this video this morning below in seeing this article. I'm hopeful that BiggerPockets will start doing a better job of vetting who they decide to put in the spotlight. Platforms such as BP can compound individuals popularity that can lead to the average investor investing in people and places that they should not.
Real Estate Guru Rant: https://youtu.be/mzBa_cgTBtg
Any suggestions on the type of vetting you'd like to see BiggerPockets do for their guests?
It was 2 years later before the FBI was able to find enough evidence to take action; I'm not sure it's a reasonable to expect a podcast platform to meet a higher bar than the FBI.
Don't mean that to sound flippant, but this is a difficult issue to address and we don't know how often BiggerPockets has actually been successful in filtering potentially shady guests. Perhaps their track record is better than we all suspect.