Gotta respect the wise as long as they aren't cheating, lying, stealing or have malice intention. 

I am grateful for their intentions but I knew that I wanted something different when I grew up.

They have the best intentions in the world, but they are seduced by the cult of these mentorship programs. 

I have referred a loan out of state based on NOI, cap rate at purchase, room for increase income and purchase price vs market value.Maybe I didn’t articulate the intent of the post as clearly as I hopedFor anyone who has bought multi family out of state, “what are gives you the warm and fuzzies about a deal”:Obviously not cap rate, but maybe vacancy rate,  Cash on Cash ,GRM, IRR, Unlevered free cash flow, Cities over 250k?

The intent was: a better environment for our people and cost savings.

Of course the tenant eviction process took awhile and out of spite the tenant intentionally left the lights on.

Then you hire a coach to accelerate your learning and take you to the next level.Using a sports analogy, it would be foolish to hire a basketball coach if your intent is to play pickup games every Saturday for fun.

If you're intentional with it, you may be able to include some travel deductions as well.

I recently hired them to clean up my credit with the intention to take a serious look into the MAP program.

If you are using RE investing to try to avoid going to school, your intentions are not in the correct place.