Question about a Real Estate Course

[John Peters]

Question to all.

I am new to the real estate business and figured I would learn as much as possible through books, blogs, vlogs, and websites such as this one before I jump in. I have recently came across this Real Estate course that is taught by Tai Lopez and Cole Hatter. I was wondering if anyone would recommend or not recommend this course? Thank you all in advance!

[Kevin Siedlecki]

@John Peters - you'll find most of us here would not recommend spending money on any course. That's what BP is for. Keep reading, listening to the podcasts, and answering your questions here. There is nothing an expensive course is going to teach you that you can't get here for free. 

That's what everyone will tell you. I have my own twist, too. I am a teacher, and I can tell you without a doubt that people learn best when there is just the right amount of difficulty involved. The information and insights that you struggle with or find difficult to arrive to are the ones that stick the most. You might feel like BP is a huge, overwhelming source of info, and finding answers to your specific questions is going to be hard. That will actually help you learn. If you sit in a course and passively receive well-organized, structured information, you actually learn less than if you spend some time struggling to find it, searching for you own info, and organizing it yourself as you learn it. That might mean getting out and making a deal so you are sweating the details, or having to figure out the right search terms and the right questions to ask on the forums. Either way, you will learn way more, and it will stick more, when you take charge of the experience instead of letting someone else organize it for you. That's a piece of the guru discussion that seems to be lost, and why so many people attend those seminars and then never take action. 

Side note: books are a little different, because as well-organized as a book might be, you control your reading experience and make sense of how books work together to create your understanding of the real estate world.