Even paying for an audiobook will be cheaper then their scam courses. 

The SEC wars against prommissory note scams here: https://www.sec.gov/investor/p...

You may not collect anything, but it will sit on his credit report and prevent him from getting a car loan, home loan, or scamming another landlord.

Might be more expensive since you would pay a broker fee, but it's worthwhile to save yourself from scams. 

That strategy is not going to work at all. 99 percent of agents don't even know or understand seller financing and will just think it's a scam (which it is most times these calls come in since the caller has no money and therefore is irrelevant to a regular homeowner).

Go to google and put the name of person / entity you are interested in the search engine, and then add the words "and scam".  

or scammed them on their application fee (like we're going to make a ton of money off those).

Either the property was already rented, or it's a scam.

You can see plenty of examples in these threads, where every contribution revolves around this same promotional angle:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/927/topics/1195612-the-...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1136123-what...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1103837-which...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/62/topics/1156841-scam-...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/44/topics/1159791-what-...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/1121289-has-a...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/44/topics/1159791-what-...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/32290-jack-bo...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/938096-land-f...Given this pattern and the sophisticated marketing approach, I wouldn’t be surprised if "William Ferr" might actually be Jonathan Halves himself, or someone closely tied to his business.

Between the contractor that scammed me and the break in, this project has gone on for about five months longer than it should, and I have depleted my savings making the interest payments all the way up until I have zero money.