Starting on the Rent to Retirement Journey

[Brian Sarvis]

I have started on my Rent to Retirement journey and I just so happened to be starting it with the company Rent to Retirement. Last year I started my education on rental income and came across Rent to Retirement. I joined their Academy program and took their advise to start investing while continuing to learn from the lessons in the Academy. I listen to their podcast daily while driving to and from work as well. When I was ready to start investing one of their reps, Matthew Seyoum, reached out to help. He and the entire team at Rent to Retirement have been there to guide me with any questions along the way. There system has been helpful for someone with no prior experience in the process, from finding properties, lenders, insurance agents, CPA's, attorneys, etc. There a lot of moving pieces and their CEO @Zach Lemaster has put together a great organization. It may or may not be a great fit for others, but it has been good for me so far as a new investor.

Brian Sarvis

[Zach Lemaster]

@Sebastian Bennett We do pay significantly for advertising with BP.  However, these are sincere reviews by actual investors of ours.  We most certainly encourage them to share their experiences, and it would actually be nice to see some support for newer investors who got their first deal done successfully, even if you don't agree with their specific strategy.  The online world has become so negative these days about people complaining, criticizing or putting people down that it becomes very discouraging for a new investor to share their experience.  Personally knowing the founder of BP, Josh Dorkin and the current CEO, Scott Trench, I can tell you that their intent in starting and growing the bigger pockets community is to encourage investors of all experience levels to share their experience and network with like minded individuals.  I'm not sure why you are so bothered by someone sharing their experience online.  If you are bothered by investors sharing a win in their post, I recommend you don't waste your time reading the post.  There are hundreds of posts on the BP forums every day.

However, this does seem a bit more personal as all your recent forum comments are attacking anyone that speaks highly of Rent To Retirement.  So I am glad you mentioned the moderators that you did so they can investigate if you are just a disgruntled person that has a vendetta against RTR, or if you are someone that is spamming all the posts anyone makes about RTR.  Either way, there are forum posting rules about that as you seem to be really spending a lot of time to comment negatively about anything to do with my company. 

Also, I would like to point out that at Rent To Retirement, we work extremely hard to provide a positive experience for investors. We absolutely encourage them to share their experience with their network both online and in person. Yes, that is called word of mouth and it's the best way to bring in new customers, but it only works if a company actually has a good reputation and cares about the success of their client, which we do. I've been in the BP community for over 10 years, I've been featured on the podcast 6 different times, RTR has over 270 5 star reviews, and yes, I've been a long time sponsor of BP as well. When clients share their positive experience online, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I'm sure you would be thrilled to support any of the posts on here where people are complaining about a company or their REI experience. I would just encourage you to simply block out content that talks about RTR and spend your time reading things that do apply to you.

Best of luck to you!