Out of every 100 people there, I would argue less than 10% would become successful investors and more than 50% would lose money on deals.

They only teach you the first step, which can be argued, is a very important step and that is how to find the deals. 

If you don't know their value, then I would argue you don't have a good agent.

I went through a refi last year with a traditional mortgage bank. had the same scenario, first appraisal came back super low, we argued the valuation and ultimately got nowhere. we decided to start over with a different lender, and got a 2nd appraisal exactly 16 days after the first one was dated, and the valuation was almost $80k more. sometimes starting over is all you can do. 

You can post on this thread after your takeaways from the meeting, but I do not believe in arguing over a public forum.

That doesn't include any maintenance costs or other variables.I regularly argue that solar energy is rarely worth the investment.

Although this seems trivial, I have seen friends argue over less.

One is a licensed agent; runs comps, sells stander abc properties, sells personal fix and flips on mls etc.

Memo 1982-51), where the taxpayer successfully argued against the property tax “assessed value” allocation.

I'm not here to argue I'm here to let the poster know that there are DSCR ground up loans that exist.