Postage is .16 per piece so you'll need to buy a metric ton of mail pieces to get your per piece price down to 5 cents - even the online outfits are .065 per when you add in shipping....then there's the lack of qualified targets..how many homes are rentals where the occupants aren't qualified to make a selling decision...uninterested...looking for retail sales...etc..etc..The per piece price starts going up (quickly) if you're unwilling to bundle your mailings into groups of 50-100, do the postal paperwork AND deliver to the mailing post office within their delivery window.

@Don Konipol  i myself am not anti paid coaching or educationI think from what we see with some high profile litigation going on now  (Montelongo and Tarik in LA)you may see AG's step into this market and try to regulate it somewhat.I had some conversations with the owners of the back end of a few of these outfits and they are already working with these folks to limit the wild claims of success that tend to suck folks who desperately want to change their life's station for the better.I think you may see extended cooling off periodslimit claims of successthe main issue I have with these folks is how they wip them up and then get them to raise their credit card limits and use said credit card to buy their program only to simply end up in a ton of credit card debt.These programs were all spawned out of MLM .. they are run the same way.. same trigger's at the events.. 

Your association with WorldVentures, probably the biggest scam outfit in the travel industry, does not bode well for your future in real estate.

As the CEO of a turnkey outfit in Birmingham, AL, I suppose most of what I want to add has been said by @Alex Craig and others.

Not to say the podcasts aren't very useful, but they seem to be a very new outfit that only accepts cash investments because they don't like the 'red tape' of working with  banks (aka appraisals etc) so I'd read up on people's actual experiences before pursuing that specific avenue.Of course, being the CEO of a full-service turnkey provider in Birmingham, AL, I obviously think TK is an amazing RE investment and perfect for first-timers because, as Ken correctly noted, it takes the emotion and hassle out of it.

I'd imagine the company you are working with that put you on a waiting list has a very small outfit in the Cleveland market.

Big Forestry outfit they then sent one of their guys to Mexico city to meet with a top flight lawyer there and it turned out 10k later to be a total scam..

Jay Hinrichs I buy cash, so working with a wholesale/HML outfit doesn't work for me.

With supply and demand 101, we know that is not good, especially with the Saudis not lowering their oil production.From what I've read, I expect a lot of the outfits that are fracking in Canada and the Northern states to probably file bankruptcy and be sold out, or do tremendous amounts of volume to stay afloat, worsening conditions.

I enter into a long-term lease on a commercial space, subdivide and outfit the space to accommodate a specific use, and generate positive cash flow once certain occupancy rates are achieved.I like the salon model but there are already so many in my area.