Brian Gibbons

[Gary Sullivan]

A quick comment about Brian Gibbons, if I may.

I have never met Brian but for the last several months I have been following his posts, along with posts from other people, on this blog. His posts have always been well thought out and content-rich, in my opinion.

I went to briangibbonsreicoach.com where he gives away tons of free info and also offers personal mentoring.

I had the chance to communicate with him today and I could not have been more impressed. Even though I am a "newbie" and have limited knowledge about creative real estate, he was kind enough and patient enough to  spend a significant amount of time with me.

He discussed how to approach an owner and how to structure different deals, how to Joint Venture with a seller,  which neighborhoods to buy houses in and why,  how to find owners ready to sell on good terms, and much, much more including a quick review of IRS taxation, trusts and Dodd-Frank.

Thank you BiggerPockets and thank you Brian Gibbons.

[Jay Hinrichs]

@Gary Sullivan   I for one think that paid for one on one mentoring with someone you trust and like is of a great amount of value as long as you can afford it.

there is only so much one can learn reading on line ... and most pod cast just gloss over topics and really don't get into the nitty gritty... a good mentor paid for or not can really short cut the learning curve and probably the money you spend on a paid for coach or mentor is money you would have lost trying to do it on your own.. and failing because you did not know what you did not know.

I for one thinks its horrible advice when people on BP say to not pay for education save that money and buy a house... even if you lose money your getting hands on education.. I think that thought process is flawed to the extreme.. Much better to get trained up front so that you don't lose money and get discouraged...

Some of these folks recommend buying some 20k crapper rental  like that is an education LOL... good luck with it.