Every now and then, I'll receive a legitimate check in the mail with a warning that by endorsing it, I'll be agreeing to sign up for an insurance policy, a magazine subscription, or whatever else.Anyone know about the legality of these checks or how I can begin writing them against my own business accounts?

Don,Will,and John are right on.What a typical Guru will do is throw the meat out there and get the potential investor in a frenzy and then they will buy a course to only get mostly fluff.I can tell you being a commercial broker and investor is hard work.I was breaking down trash the other day from a tenant that left so that bulk would pick it up from one of my units.I don't look at the work but where it will get me too and the experience and learning.Once you accept that you will work smart but also very hard you will get ahead.If you keep believing in silver bullets to instant riches then you will spend years trying every BS infomercial and magazine gig out there.What gets me is people with an investing dream getting the little money they have sucked away by a GURU that thinks they are just a number and revenue builder making them richer and richer.

Should the magazine’s publisher, Andrew Waite, be dismissed, like the green financial planner, or the one-deal guru?

You will find many of these books in the magazine rack with hundreds of designs.

This is both an online and printed magazine directed to loan originators.

Check the archives on this site for articles I and another Investor (mine was from Realtor magazine) on the increased demand for farm land.

They promote it in a couple of magazines and online spaces as well and every couple of days I get an email as I am sure they are sending everyone on how great the program is (complete with balloons and confetti)!

(Popular Photography magazine is running a little interview with me in their next issue if you care to pick it up at the newsstand.)

Just like Time Magazine labeled it back in the 80's when it made the cover for one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country, it is "a washed up mill town" and always will be.

And 8.00 is annual interest rate.I also looked at this method as way to determine a cap rate.If you haven't found the answer, I hope this helps.Article: http://www.ccim.com/cire-magazine/articles/cap-rate-calculations