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All Forum Posts by: Justin Buswell

Justin Buswell has started 2 posts and replied 49 times.

Post: Is Pace Morby a Scam?

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I'm actually in the subto group and it's not a scam. I'm curious to see what experiences Mike's had within the community. I'd be happy to jump on a call or even a zoom to show you what's available.


 I would love to chat with you. I'm actually considering that Sub To community now. Along with another.  Would be great to chat and learn how you've done since joining.

 Hi @Tanya Maslach - I would love to hear if you joined Sub To and what your experience has been. I'm also considering it. 

I did not end up joining. 

I've been a member of Gator and Sub2 for 2 years. I've made money because of both. They are both worth every cent.

That said they are both oversold on what they will do for you.  More than 50% (guessing) get nothing out of the program.  I've spoken to many many people who backed off on the program.  I've spoken to a ton who think Pace is a crook.  I've spoken to a ton that think Pace is the 2nd coming who walks on water and pees liquid silver.  The zealots are the worst!

There are a ton of scammers, liars, and low-quality humans in the group. There are also a ton of people there just to sell to you as a member.  Then there is everyone else.  Normal people who were sold a dream and read all the content and try to apply it.  Many of them screw up.  Many more don't 

Each group has a facebook group that is HEAVILY sculpted, censored and injected with propaganda.  So if you do get ripped off, or warn people of ripp offs your post gets deleted and you get a warning.  Do it too much they remove you from the Facebook Group.

This is the worst part of the Group and the reason I can't recommend it to anyone.  That and that it is first and foremost the top of the funnel for the PM organization to keep getting money out of you.

Post: Pace Morby Mentorship

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Well there is an entire conference that would have been held this week if not for the hurricane about stopping Pace and the gator bois. It may even have had some DOJ interest. 


 you spend a lot of time trolling Pace on this Forum.  We get it.  You don't like him.  Enough man.   I'm no fan either but you're obsessed.

Post: Grumpy Hare reviews and feedback

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For me Jerryl's offering don't work out at all.   

Post: launch control pricing

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In the end they refunded us so I am not as out on them.  They did not have to do that as they have no refund policy. 

They took over a month to on board us. After 3 weeks they said that the address of our LLC was the issue. This is the same LLC and address that I use for 10 other services including competitive SMS services.

So we gave them a new LLC and they finally got us up and running about 3 weeks later. Their deliverability was way below what they advertised. We got a lot more opt outs than with the competition and after the headache of getting up and running we just wanted out..They initially would not give us a refund but in the end they did.

Quote from @NA NA:

Title: Beware of Poor Customer Service and Mismanagement at LaunchControl
I am writing this review to share my unfortunate experience with LaunchControl, a texting service provider. As a long-standing customer, my interactions with their team, particularly a customer service representative named Mike, have been deeply disappointing and reflect a lack of professionalism and organizational competence.
Initially, I discovered an issue with a second account that was inadvertently created under my name. This account, which I was completely unaware of and never utilized, was accruing charges fraudulently. Upon noticing this, I rightfully initiated a chargeback for these unjustified expenses.
The situation worsened when I reached out to LaunchControl for resolution. Instead of a helpful and understanding approach, I was met with condescension and unprofessionalism, particularly from Mike. His manner was off-putting, and he insinuated dishonesty on my part, which is baseless and offensive. What’s more baffling is that, instead of rectifying the issue, Mike provided access to the wrong account – the unused and unknown one – and eventually led to the cancellation of both my accounts.
This experience not only highlights serious issues in their customer service but also raises concerns about their internal account management systems. For a service that handles sensitive client information and transactions, such mismanagement and lack of accountability are alarming.
The attitude and actions of representatives like Mike are detrimental to the reputation and reliability of LaunchControl. It’s disheartening to see a company that once had my trust handle a situation so poorly.
To others considering LaunchControl, I advise looking into other alternatives. There are many services out there offering similar capabilities, often at a more reasonable cost and with a customer service team that values and respects its clients. In my experience, dealing with LaunchControl has been more of a headache than a help, and I strongly recommend steering clear of their services. They will not even let us in our account to export all our data that we spent so many long hard hours working on. HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. 


 I have to agree.  Stay away from Launch Control.  

Post: launch control pricing

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Our experience with Launch Control was horrific.  They over sold their capabilities and had issue after issue getting us on boarded.  We asked for a refund, which they refused.  We canceled and went back to the platform we had used before them.  All the SMS services have issues but LC is not one I would use.

Post: Is Pace Morby a Scam?

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@Account Closed - I'll let you decide if paying out of my savings is better or worse than putting it on my credit card. Believe me, if I don't have tangible ($) value in the next 6 months from Pace and his program, you'll be the first to know and I'll update this. I do feel confident in the value he has delivered to-date and have line of sight on it creating monetary value. Stay tuned!

 @Account Closed would you have updates now that its been 7 months, what's your experience of being in Pace's program?

You misunderstand. I would never join Pace Morby's group. His information is faulty, his approach is to "overleverage", "zero down" and in my opinion the information he leaves out is either lack of experience on his part or intentional deception, neither of which I am willing to be associated with.

He leaves out very important information, like what my buddy recently posted at 

Using Subject To, to Get "Free" Properties - A Quick Guideline

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1188416-usin...

We teach even the downside of Subject To and how to avoid the pitfalls. You have to be an accredited investor to be trained by us. That means you have enough money to do these safely.

I’m sure he's an enthusiastic and nice guy, most of his ilk are. But that doesn't keep the regulators away. By contrast, we just teach “stick to good underwriting, using title reports and escrow and having sufficient capital to make sure the seller is cared for”. Very conservative approach that protects the seller.

There is a long thread that covers what I'm talking about at

Pace Morby Mentorship

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/1001612-pace-...

 p.s. I am accredited. I don't buy into most any program nowadays or Coaching and other bs. I would still value a mentor, who knows what they're doing. But most of these programs are the usual circle jerk. 


Nida,  as an accredited investor I have to think your smart enough to understand how this works with some simple reading on the subject..  Its really not that complicated for the buyer there is no voodoo to this process of acquiring a property..  The real risks are to the seller.. And if you are not in a position to refi quickly or cash out the loan then you too take on a risk.. thats it thats the whole enchilada when it comes to sub 2. Everything else is just trying to hide the fact you did the transaction from the lender.  And folks that need to do that dont have the capacity to deal with a loan that has been called and a seller that is madder than a wet hornet if you goof up their credit.

Then the other major issue glossed over by everyone is there is a minute amount of sellers that will even entertain these transactions and most of the time your paying a premium for the asset. Unless you spend money trying to find off market deals.. Lots of time involved and educating the seller why to do this for you..  95% of sellers if they ask their attorney for advice will be given advice do not do this.

So thats the reality from my point of view I made a business out of this for many years and my dad made a business out of this in the 70s through the 80s so lots of experience at it.  Just understand that there are two sides to these transactions. And reality no matter who is teaching you.. The internet books  Morby the sub 2 guys the market for this is quite thin.

U do not become an accredited Investor without having some good smarts. Congrats on that.
Thank you and right you are. I am completely self taught intentionally. I wanted to be absolutely sure I had complete agency and that I knew how to perform my own analysis over various situations. And I largely ask questions now (admittedly, posing as a novice) to keep up with the new BS. For example, whole life insurance has at least 5 different terms associated with it now. But it's still...whole life insurance. I had a friend arguing with me yesterday Pace's program has high value. So I dug in. It was a fun 30 seconds 😂

 there is certainly value in the membership.  Quantifying it is more challenging.  I don't know what it costs now, but it was $9k when I joined.  It's been WELL worth that to me.  My business which owes some thanks to the program will do over $50K this month.  

That said it is way oversold and there is a lot of dark side as well.


thats a great point over sold.  There is only a small fraction of transactions in the US go sub 2 Just like those that teach wholesaling there is only so much beat up houses to go around.. And like everything RE sales related 10 to 15% do 80 to 90% of the deals.. so we know going in that 80% at least of those that buy these courses simply do nothing with it.

Sub2 is just a fraction of the content. Yes, it looks cool on Instagram and sells a lot of memberships but you get in the group and find many reasons to focus on more traditional strategies right away. All the acquisition and exit strategies are covered not just Sub2. There is also business buying and more.

My impression is it's not even 80/20.  Its more like 98/2 with an additional 5% saying they do stuff so they can get a piece of someone else's hard work while they have not done anything and live in their mom's basement.

All that said there is value well over the cost for those who apply themselves to deriving the value. 

Good luck out there.  

Post: Is Pace Morby a Scam?

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Quote from @Nida Kazmi:
Quote from @Jay Hinrichs:
Quote from @Nida Kazmi:
Quote from @Account Closed:
Quote from @Nida Kazmi:
Quote from @David Hori:

@Account Closed - I'll let you decide if paying out of my savings is better or worse than putting it on my credit card. Believe me, if I don't have tangible ($) value in the next 6 months from Pace and his program, you'll be the first to know and I'll update this. I do feel confident in the value he has delivered to-date and have line of sight on it creating monetary value. Stay tuned!

 @Account Closed would you have updates now that its been 7 months, what's your experience of being in Pace's program?

You misunderstand. I would never join Pace Morby's group. His information is faulty, his approach is to "overleverage", "zero down" and in my opinion the information he leaves out is either lack of experience on his part or intentional deception, neither of which I am willing to be associated with.

He leaves out very important information, like what my buddy recently posted at 

Using Subject To, to Get "Free" Properties - A Quick Guideline

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1188416-usin...

We teach even the downside of Subject To and how to avoid the pitfalls. You have to be an accredited investor to be trained by us. That means you have enough money to do these safely.

I’m sure he's an enthusiastic and nice guy, most of his ilk are. But that doesn't keep the regulators away. By contrast, we just teach “stick to good underwriting, using title reports and escrow and having sufficient capital to make sure the seller is cared for”. Very conservative approach that protects the seller.

There is a long thread that covers what I'm talking about at

Pace Morby Mentorship

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/1001612-pace-...

 p.s. I am accredited. I don't buy into most any program nowadays or Coaching and other bs. I would still value a mentor, who knows what they're doing. But most of these programs are the usual circle jerk. 


Nida,  as an accredited investor I have to think your smart enough to understand how this works with some simple reading on the subject..  Its really not that complicated for the buyer there is no voodoo to this process of acquiring a property..  The real risks are to the seller.. And if you are not in a position to refi quickly or cash out the loan then you too take on a risk.. thats it thats the whole enchilada when it comes to sub 2. Everything else is just trying to hide the fact you did the transaction from the lender.  And folks that need to do that dont have the capacity to deal with a loan that has been called and a seller that is madder than a wet hornet if you goof up their credit.

Then the other major issue glossed over by everyone is there is a minute amount of sellers that will even entertain these transactions and most of the time your paying a premium for the asset. Unless you spend money trying to find off market deals.. Lots of time involved and educating the seller why to do this for you..  95% of sellers if they ask their attorney for advice will be given advice do not do this.

So thats the reality from my point of view I made a business out of this for many years and my dad made a business out of this in the 70s through the 80s so lots of experience at it.  Just understand that there are two sides to these transactions. And reality no matter who is teaching you.. The internet books  Morby the sub 2 guys the market for this is quite thin.

U do not become an accredited Investor without having some good smarts. Congrats on that.
Thank you and right you are. I am completely self taught intentionally. I wanted to be absolutely sure I had complete agency and that I knew how to perform my own analysis over various situations. And I largely ask questions now (admittedly, posing as a novice) to keep up with the new BS. For example, whole life insurance has at least 5 different terms associated with it now. But it's still...whole life insurance. I had a friend arguing with me yesterday Pace's program has high value. So I dug in. It was a fun 30 seconds 😂

 there is certainly value in the membership.  Quantifying it is more challenging.  I don't know what it costs now, but it was $9k when I joined.  It's been WELL worth that to me.  My business which owes some thanks to the program will do over $50K this month.  

That said it is way oversold and there is a lot of dark side as well.

Post: Subto, Gator, and Pace

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There is certainly value but you won't get an honest review in a public forum on Pace.  Also if you are not careful in his group you may shave your head and spend your days at the airport handing out flowers.   This guy has as much in common with David Coresh and Jim Jones as he does with David Green or Carlton Sheets.

Post: Is Pace Morby a Scam?

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I am a member/subscriber of Pace Morby Subto, Limitless Deal Flow, and Gator.   I am also a member/subscriber of Vodessey, Short Sale Prophets Basic, and several others.  I am happy to talk to anyone about my experience and views on these mentorships.  I would say first and foremost go download the "Guru Manifesto" from Vena Jones Cox who is by far my favorite educator.  Subscribe to her podcast too.  She's great and free (sure there is a paid option - Of course).

Also, keep in mind that some mentorships are lifelong and have conduct rules.  IE if you were to be "negative" you could be thrown out which is a pretty stiff penalty given the costs.  You will not get full honest reviews publically on any program. 

None of these programs contains magic.   They contain shortcuts to knowledge and potentially community.  You can get all that knowledge elsewhere it will likely take a lot longer.  Also for all the value they provide the number 1 thing they all exist to do is enrich the Guru and give him a captive audience to sell more stuff to.  Yes, there can be value in there but as a member subscriber, you will get non-stop solicitation.

Recently I had one of my Gurus tell me I would never get success with their basic program (of course this is well after I bought it) and I needed to spend $75K!!!!! for their one on one program.  Education on real estate appears to be a much better business than real estate itself.