Sure 1  McDonalds sells 4,000 Big Macks a day for $2.00 a piece, sounds like they are taxed on $8,000 a day, But the truck to drive it there costs, the burger costs, the lettuce costs, the franchise fee costs, the employees and their employment taxes cost, the lights cost, the driveway pavement costs, the water for the bathrooms cost, the depreciation for the new chairs cost, the land tax costs.

Depending on your area, here is what I would do: research the areas you want to market in (im assuming for wholesaling), find the area that may have the most motivated sellers with homes that are most likely needing rehab in some way to add value (1985 homes and older), contact a reliable list broker, buy a list of 60,90,120 day LATE mortgage payment (this is different then default, NOD, NTS) this typically is .16 to .22 cents a lead, buy 1000, to save money get lined white ruler paper, hand write a note that you want to say to the mailers on a piece of copy paper using the lines of the ruler paper as a guide, then meticulously photo copy that note on the printer using the ruler paper as the printer paper so that you have 1000 nice lined paper print outs of your note that look like real hand written notes (do not hurry on this part, make sure it looks good, since this is your one chance at the mailing with that limited budget), then buy 1000 yellow greeting card sized envelopes from envelopes.com (canary yellow 4x5 ish), buy 1000 real stamps, HAND WRITE the first name of the late payment person on the top line of the letters, HAND write the mailing address on the envelopes, put a real stamp on it, then mail them off in batches of 250 a week if you are by your self or 500 if you have a partner (calls will come in and overload you).Get a way to track every call, return EVERY call even if its missed, go on all appointments, learn a ton, make something happen.This worked for me to get started once I had a budget. 

Also, i would add that The cost of these programs imo i dnt see the big deal only to the effect that in the world how many people drop that kind of money some gurus ask for on college to be a server, working in retail or flipping burgers, stuff you dnt need a 4 year degree for.

I didn't check it, but check your program to the TI BAII, it's accuracy is better than one tenth of one per cent in rounding over 360 months (which is a requirement for the APR disclosure).....I used a slide ruler as a rubber band gun, thought all those numbers were a gauge for shooting the ammo.

Somebody loves Whatta-Burger

Most investors look at the 1% rule.

My opinion is that the money was spent (bought a burger) and forgot they broke a $100 bill, or forgot they made a purchase.

Bath bombings Michigan 1920's, U of Texas shootings 1960's, Burger King shootings 1990, Columbine, and this...plus countless more in the 1700's, 1800's, all through the 1900's and on to today.

There are degrees of passivity.If purely passive income (things like savings interest and stock dividends) are on one side of the spectrum and purely non-passive income (things like flipping burgers) are on the other side of the spectrum, being a consultant isn't too far from flipping burgers.

Forget the burger though....I hear some Fajitas calling my name...