I told myself I was seeking to ease into the industry when I tried to start my own wholesaling gig last summer, when I was really just chasing money.Of course, I got burned out from trying to chase hundreds of leads per week because I was not truly passionate or aware of what I needed to do to reach success. 

What if the house burns to the ground?

Their crash and burn will be very entertaining.

Agree 100% percent about vetting the sponsor, and running background checks, there are too many out there trying to syndicate that don't really have enough experience to know what they're doing...the investors end up getting burned.

Several million points having been earned, and burned.

I went through so many that I think I burned myself out on the area.

Way too many out of state investors get burned this way.

I wonder if some of the Santa Rosa burn out victims are looking that far north.. long way but commute is easy.

I’ve got my own stories to add to the others on here, stories of being burned by people who said they knew how to do stuff, but then turned out to be either substance-abusing con artists or they just did as much as they felt like doing and then disappeared, leaving the job half done.

The other 2, their house burned down and their insurance company is paying for them to stay in a STR for 3 months.