@Justin Williams
After being here for years and having been around the block a few times, you develop skills to see right through rhetoric, questions being evaded, fluff and puffing. Newbies see sizzle and are easily impressed.
So far, I don't see any meat, what I see is defining or structuring aspects differently so that that they can built upon to influence the end result as being a successful result. It's a skilled marketing tactic.
For example, you were asked what the average profit was. Your reply was that since you did deals in different areas and price ranges that wasn't available. That simply evaded the question and was turned into an opportunity to advance your model in dealing on a large scale in various prices and locations. Well, the average profit should be known by any investor in any strategy off the top of their head, pretty simple ball park figure and locations and prices ranges have absolutely nothing to do with the average profit.
I really doubt you lack basic financial knowledge, you're a sharp guy, giving a high % as a margin and then saying it doesn't include debt service is just another example of not being truly forthright. I'd think you'd know pretty close to what your margin would be after debt service, but that may be something you don't want to disclose, and you certainly are entitled not to give your true financial position, no one has to do that. I'd say asking you might be crossing the line. OTH, giving a fantastic rate is pretty much puffing and then tempering that number with an unknown factor is again not forthright IMO.
Your defense swing comment, the detective work and being here for those who want to learn was a skillful one. Deny the accusation and reinforce with positive intent.
You'd know too if the majority of your business came from selling information or flipping deals, I'd say it's a very applicable question as this thread is about your goals and success, it's full of comments implying your success, you opened the door but brushed it off.
I'm not attacking you or your program or your method, I am calling a spade a spade as to this thread, that there really are no details to make any valid determination from. Evading specific questions and turning the question with load of conversation that promotes so other aspect is still evasive. It's guru spiel, it's the style and under the radar marketing I don't care for. There isn't one paragraph that is educational, it's all ambiguous, nothing specific and I'd guess we won't really get anything specific or measurable. The intent is to drive traffic to your site I'd say. Nothing wrong with that, that's why most are here, to generate business, but it's how they go about it.
If you've been around for two years with only 34 some posts, I'd think you've had plenty of time to know this site, how things fly by, that questions will be asked of those eluding to fantastic operational models.
As you said, no harm and no foul, again, I've not seen your program nor will I go there, it's not about you or your program, just more to the tactics in this thread that are clearly understood by those who can read the text as well as between the lines. But, personally, good luck on you goal of getting contracts accepted, hope who flip them all. :)
Oh, PS, I'm out of here, I'd say this post clearly pointed out my opinion, I'm not on any war path here, just suggesting you get specific or just slow the wagon down and stick closely to your original goal. Happy trails :))
