Tulsa REIA Quality Question

[Ossie Moore]

I am a new comer to buy-n-hold investing. Have been reading a ton of books, listening to podcasts and have discovered Bigger Pockets. One thin I also did was check-out my local REIA. However, I went to the first meeting and the main speaker was an out-of-town guy giving a super high-pressure sales job for some MLM program called "Financial Education Services Protection", which didn't actually have anything to do with real estate, other than he was pitching us to pressure credit challenged prospects into buying this (my opinion) predatory program. My questions are is, (a) is anyone familiar with the Tulsa area REIA (b) is this typical for the Tulsa area REIA and (c) if this is typical, is there another REIA that serves Tulsa?

[Toben B.]

I have been to Tulsa REIA 10-15 or so times.

Most of them were very helpful and I only saw a high pressure sales presentation once.  I suspect this was not welcome by the person who runs it and I never saw those people back. 

Some of the best information from these meetings is in meeting others with experience not always the speaker. 

Anyway I wouldn't worry about one bad speaker.  I still get value from going to these.