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All Forum Posts by: Enrique S.

Enrique S. has started 3 posts and replied 14 times.

Originally posted by @Hattie Dizmond:

@Enrique S.

Dev nailed it, as usual!

I don't personally like the word "mentor" or "mentoring".  They are perfectly good words.  They just seem arrogant to me.  I don't know that I will ever feel like I could be a "mentor".  However, I meet with and spend time helping new members and new investors all the time.  My personal email address and phone number are in my signature as an open invitation to anyone who care to reach out.

The education companies live and prosper by getting folks to sign up for their trainings and mentoring programs.  I had a similar experience with Fortune Builders.  They got very hostile and condescending, when we say "No thank you".

 Hi Hattie Dizmond,

Thank you for the wonderful words of wisdom and caring heart to help others. We did not think of mentor in that way until you made a valid point, and we thank you for that! We thank you for having open arms as it is hard to find others that want to help each other succeed together! We as well always have an open invitation to others because we believe in giving a helping hand so that we all can strive to help each other grow! We may not have much to offer as far as knowledge but we have the drive to succeed in everything we do and hope to help others at the same time. 

We have noticed that those educational companies just want money from people and do not care about anyone but themselves. We have gone to one called success paths and received calls from two different people from renatus! All of them sound the same and have the same sells pitch! Thank you again for your reply and like always we wish you the best of success in your future investments!

Sincerely,

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

Hi Dev Horn,

We appreciate the response and now know that our thoughts were in fact true. We also believe new, intermediate, and experienced RE Investors can help each other in many aspects as long as we all work together as a team :). We had family who used to live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area who loved it. We love Texas and hope to own a few properties in the near future in different parts if Texas! Like always, we wish you the best of success in your future REI!!

Sincerely,

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

Post: Call from Renatus...

Enrique S.Posted
  • Antelope, CA
  • Posts 14
  • Votes 6

We apologize if you see this twice! We think we posted this on the wrong forum so we are not getting any responses do to this mistake. Thanks in advance for the understanding! 

Hi BP members!! This will be our first post on the forums so please bare with us. 

So we received a call from a lady working for Renatus called Christina and she offered the mentoring we were looking for. She asked a series of questions which involved some finacial ones and then sent us an email in which that email had a link. The link took you to a web page that had three different videos for you to watch. Before watching these videos, we took it upon ourselves to research about Renatus on BiggerPockets to see what others thought and we were glad we did!! After reading the discussion about Renatus on BP we decided it was best for us to move on our way and leave Renatus for others that feel it will benefit them. 

Christina called us back the next day and asked why we did not sign up or view the videos. We politely said, "after further investigation on Renatus, we decided it is not in our best interest to move forward with their company". Christina then became argumentative towards us while proceeding to sell us on the idea of joining! She told us if we did not join Renatus, we would not find any mentor that would help us for free because we have nothing to offer them!! When we told her we would offer them a deal or some type a partnership, she laughed in our face and said good luck on finding that mentor, call us back when you realize no one will help you.

We were shocked how unprofessional and negative Renatus was! What are all of your thoughts! Please share your opinions   because we would like to know. Thank you in advance for all of your replies and thank you BP members for saving us from Renatus!!!

Sincerely, 

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

Hi BP members!! This will be our first post so please bare with us. 

So we received a call from a lady working for Renatus called Christina and she offered the mentoring we were looking for. She asked a series of questions which involved some finacial ones and then sent us an email in which that email had a link. The link took you to a web page that had three different videos for you to watch. Before watching these videos, we took it upon ourselves to research about Renatus on BiggerPockets to see what others thought and we were glad we did!! After reading the discussion about Renatus on BP we decided it was best for us to move on our way and leave Renatus for others that feel it will benefit them. 

Christina called us back the next day and asked why we did not sign up or view the videos. We politely said, "after further investigation on Renatus, we decided it is not in our best interest to move forward with their company". Christina then became argumentative towards us while proceeding to sell us on the idea of joining! She told us if we did not join Renatus, we would not find any mentor that would help us for free because we have nothing to offer them!! When we told her we would offer them a deal or some type a partnership, she laughed in our face and said good luck on finding that mentor, call us back when you realize no one will help you.

We were shocked how unprofessional and negative Renatus was! What are all of your thoughts! Please share your opinions   because we would like to know. Thank you in advance for all of your replies and thank you BP members for saving us from Renatus!!!

Sincerely, 

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

 Thanks Richard Ayvazyan for the congratulatory comment and thank you for the website information!! We will definitely check out the website!! Thank you again and we also wish you the best of luck on your future success!!! 

Sincerely,

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

Originally posted by @Chris Vail:

@Enrique S.

Welcome to BP and congrats on the first step of many on your REI journey.

 Thank you Chris Vail for the welcome greeting and the kind words!!! We are grateful to be apart of this wonderful family of kind hearted and like minded individuals!! 

Originally posted by @Gordon Cuffe:

@Enrique S.It is good that you found biggerpockets to learn instead of you finding some so called guru who talked you into spending 25k on your credit cards towards their real estate program. Roseville has a good rei group that meets every month also. They have a lot of members and it is free. You can find it at meetup.com. It is easy to ask me or other members of biggerpockets questions about financing and real estate investing.

Hi Gordon Cuffe, we 100% agree with you!! We recently attended an event called successpath that extremely dissapointed us!! All they wanted was our money and seemed to truly not care about the people that attended! The event was supposed to be a workshop to help us all learn about real estate investing, when in fact it was all a sales pitch!! Wow thank you for information!! We appreciate you informing us about the Roseville REI, meetup, and the open arms invitation to talk about real estate financing and investing!!

Sincerely,

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

Originally posted by @Stephanie Garcia:

Welcome to bigger pockets. I am a new investor in the Sacramento area as well. There will be an REI meeting next Wednesday at 630pm on arden way at the double tree. It cost 20$ a person come check it out.

 Hi Stephanie Garcia, thank you for the welcome greeting!! Thank you for the heads up!! We will be planning to make it to that meeting and can not wait!! Best of luck to you on your future success and we will see you at the meeting!!

Originally posted by @Ben Andrews:

@Enrique S. Welcome to the site! I recommend you check out the ultimate beginner's guide - http://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing

And start listening to the BiggerPockets podcasts. It's what I did, and am still doing!

Best of luck in your future investments.

-Ben

 Thank you for the welcome greeting Ben Andrews we appreciate it!! We have started reading the book and are almost done :). We will be reading more books and definitely listening to the podcasts!! Thank you for the wise advise and our best wishes to you as well to your future success!!

Sincerely,

Enrique and Melissa Serrano 

Originally posted by @Jesse Hinaman:

@Enrique S.

Welcome you two! It's awesome to see couples participating together. No one better than your better half to hold you accountable and push you. The couple that grows together stays together ;) Best of luck!

 Thank you Jesse Hinaman for the welcome greeting!! Thank you for wonderfully kind words and we completely agree with growing together and staying together :). Thank you and best of luck to you as well! 

Sincerely,

Enrique and Melissa Serrano