@Sachin Amin, I visited them several years ago. Although the gentleman we met with at that time for property tours was extremely nice (he is no longer there, by choice according to what I was told, due at least in part to how the company was operating their business), we were not impressed with this group’s operations. We met at their office, took a tour with him, then went back to their office to chat. The office personnel were extremely nice, but I was not at all impressed with one of the owners who appeared to be aware we were there taking a tour and potentially becoming new clients, but he couldn’t take 30 seconds to pop his head in the conference room and say hello. The properties we toured were very old and in different stages of rehab, but I wasn’t particularly impressed by the rehab work, the contractors smoking indoors, or some of the uneven floors that they just decided to throw carpet over, hoping no one would notice. I gave them my criteria and never heard a word or received an email from them since. I did hear them a while later on Keith’s GRE podcast and reached out to their new contact about property that was supposedly available right away (probably thinking/hoping they changed their ways and might actually somehow have some “good” properties available) only for the new contact to tell me they don’t have any available. Maybe I’m a PITA, who knows, but again not impressed with them. I do remember that they pay hefty referral fees for referring other investors (supposedly), and I would guess that’s a big part of why he is recommending them. As much as I love Keith (met him in person twice on investor trips), I think he has made a change to trying to monetize everything and collect referral fees wherever possible. The podcast used to have great, original content. Now, it seems to have gone downhill and the relatively new YouTube channel is just another way to say the same things and monetize. Nothing wrong with making money, but when you associate with groups where investors repeatedly have bad experiences (Freedom, Maverick, Real Estate Cowboys/Larson, etc.), something just isn’t right. I understand there are outlier experiences, and while on the surface yours appears to be one of them, it may not be as uncommon as you think. With all that said, there are also guests on the show that seem to have good investor experiences (Mid South Home Buyers, AgroNosotros, etc.). Moral of the story to all of us is that we always need to do our own due diligence and be cognizant of who is on the other side of the transaction and their possible motives - usually $.
