And I don't know if the typical note time-frame is one week or five years.

Expect to spend a considerable amount of your time speaking to people.Expect to work dozens of hours/week with little to no immediate result.Expect most of your early interest from potential clients to come from your sphere of influence.Expect to go 3-6 months without getting paid (unless you do rentals which usually pay faster)Expect to be bombarded with distractions - mainly, people/companies marketing to you so that you choose their system for quick and easy buyer or seller leads.

I am attending the 3 day event in a couple weeks.

I do prefer EDEN, they are about 2 weeks Done.

On the private side, we fund in a couple of weeks.

The GFC unfortunately hit all of us lenders pretty hard and I had a concentration in Jackson and ATL and Memphis so I had to move to Jackson for a year to clean up my portfolio I thought I was going to be there for maybe a few weeks but that turned out to be a year and I got very fortunate I was able to rent the developers house at Reunion .

(Live there 2 weeks and rent out 2 weeks.)

I dont know anything about the program, have never heard of it, but I'm closing on my second Multifamily property in a couple of weeks and have never paid for any seminars or programs.

They quoted me a rate, 1.5% origination fees and 999 service fees initially, I provided all the docs and worked with them for 3 weeks.

Check out the BP's Real Estate Events & Happenings area as there's an event this week which will be covering the topic in Tampa, for Tampa region.