Success Path Seminar

[Jason Carter]

So I recently attended the Success Path Seminar which is put on by a training group affiliated with Tarek and Christina Al Moussa. As a newbie coming in to the REI world I can honestly say that the seminar was not awful. I was expecting a lot of hard pushy sales and shaming from the reviews I had read beforehand. They gave some useful information and insights. Their pitch was to learn their method by buying into a 3-day course. After attending that 3-day course, they say that they have their own pool of lenders ready to provide you with the funds to do deals regardless of your financial status for 6 months. I think that after that, they want you to take another course which leads to a larger cost but will ultimately open up their lenders for longer to you? I did not stay for the second half of the seminar because I got the gist of what they were selling and understood what they were saying. They even are giving a money back guarantee if you don't make a REI within 6 months after you go through the 3-day course. What I didn't care for was the price structuring of the training. Basically, they try to make you feel panicked to get their "special" seminar cost for the course at $1799 or something like that, otherwise, it is a $6k cost thereafter. They did, however, say that the $1799 cost would include a guest... I didn't know what to do because I don't make decisions like that on the spot. So I didn't and left. The allure of having access to their lending pool of investors was very attractive...but again, my mind doesn't make purchases on the spot. I guess in the grand scheme of things, that cost of $1799 is not horrible to learn a "tried and true" method, as long as it can actually produce results. The other issue I have to cope with is that I am a DYI guy. I think if they could do it, I should certainly be able to do it as well, and why pay all that extra cash in doing so... What are your thoughts?