Overall, loved the conference. Here’s my feedback:
Things I liked:
1. The hotel was amazing. It was like it’s own little sustaining city. Very high class, very beautiful. I will absolutely stay at the location of the conference next year rather than a cheaper hotel somewhere else.
2. Lunch on Monday was really good. I would have been happy to have eaten that both days.
3. The venue posters and decorations were aesthetically pleasing.
4. The BP staff were super helpful and accommodating to everyone there. They were prepared and helped things run smoothly.
5. The speakers during the second day taught more advanced concepts and their presentations were more meaty. I liked the more advanced topics.
6. Liz Faircloth gave a wonderful presentation focused on their successes and failures that gave a great realistic view of what real estate investing is really like and it made me think large failures or setbacks happen to investors and, rather than just stewing in a failure, I need to get up and keep moving forward.
7. David Greene gave a wonderful talk on out of state investing that I wish had been recorded because I would watch it again and again to soak up the concepts.
8. Question and answer panels. I know know how to write a book thanks to Brandon Turner.
9. Meeting @Joe Splitrock and @Nathan Gesnerin person and getting to know them.
Things to improve:
1. Defiantly the name tags. They kept flipping and they were super low. They made it difficult to read the person’s name and see where they were from. Either having two connecting points on the name tag or having people’s names on both sides would have been helpful. Also either color coding by region or having add on stickers would be helpful to at least easily identify which region people are from.
2. Cheaper hotel prices for the night after the conference is over in order for investors to stay and network.
3. Guidance and spreading out during networking moments. It seemed as though networking happened in a very small area making it very difficult to hear people. There was more room to network if people had spread out more.
4. Beginner topics and more advanced topics.
5. Breakfast selection had no protein and it would have been better with protein.
Things that made it worth every penny:
1. Networking and meeting people from other areas and learning about the way they invest.
2. Personal 15-minute conversation with David Greene. This man exudes success.
3. Personal 10-minute conversation with Jay Scott. This man has a brilliant mind.
4. Dinner with friends and having Mindy Jensen join us. She is hilarious. But seriously, she has a really interesting take on Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad book. Something worth asking her about.
5. Lastly, David Osborn’s keynote speech at the end. Ground game versus air game. Making and reviewing goals. It’s not about being perfect at achieving one’s goals, it’s about keeping them in one’s mind and constantly moving towards them. One on one time with kids having adventures.
These things made it worth every penny. It wasn’t the things I learned as much as it was the experiences I had while being there that I will be taking away with me.
