At the same time, I am a horrible teacher/instructor.

@Omar Khan When we expand, you'll certainly be on my potential instructor list.

You will see I am quite consistent on being skeptical of anyone promoting tax sale as a middleman or instructor. but again seems that BP allows this type of behavior here.Absolutely The owners of the site believe that open dialog, even if uncomfortable for some, is a good thing for our readers.

.- The instructors/mentors in the US are a little bit more distant as in, they're not as available as they are in Canada and it's simply because of the Student to Teacher ratio.

I'm in pretty much the same boat you are Justin.I just ended up taking courses to get my real estate license and I think that route was awesome as I had a commercial broker and investor as my instructor, taught me tons!

However the instructor there recommended using an irrevocable trust.

The Human in us desires a Coach, Teacher, Mentor, Partner or Instructor to validate the information being received within the material, to be able to then bounce the information off of others with related knowledge (BP can assist with this aspect for sure) and finally to be held accountable to turn that information into action which should result in positive growth (and even higher income/profits as related to a career or business venture).Now I know, everyone can see or not see value in investing money to obtain a foundation or even an advanced knowledge taught by practicing professional instructors in the area related to the information sought, but why don't we complain about those same investments into an Accredited College for a paper degree which is suppose to have you prepared for the "Real World" experiences that come afterwards and sometimes fall short?

I just got out of a 3 day seminar put on by the James Smith organization, His son was the instructor.

I have spoken to several representatives from the State, the compliance officer for the region, and the instructor for the mobile home licensing course and all have told me that I am not allowed to buy more than one MH and sell it for profit without a license.

My instructor was a extremely knowledgeable commercial broker with quite a portfolio of real estate himself.