Surprisingly (at least to me), the thread fell flat and had one response.

Thank You Robert,After having perused this website, I was starting to come to that conclusion but was still unsure as I have to make a decision this weekend on the training, but funny that you mentioned your previous experience as such because I took one such training early on in my RE career and never ended up doing anything with it because if I remember correctly, it was as you describe, short on the key details and a sales pitch for further $ and training..and then I just started focusing on my RE career and fell away from pursuing this goal.

I only did a few sales for others when they fell into my lap from people I know.

I think most of us saw everyone jump on the real estate bandwagon in 2004+ speculating in R/E making money till the bottom fell out.

If their financing fell through for some reason, would we just be back to square one except for me being a few thousand dollars richer for the assignment?

Maybe they approved a previous price/contract that fell apart, but there will most likely be a new BPO done and the price will change.

That's how we fell into real estate. 

That said, making the functionaries fell important and in control is not necessarily a bad strategy.

It kinda fell in my lap.

Right then, I fell in love.