Always be on the lookout for the "ulterior motives" the person you're communicating with might have-especially real estate people....

Don't just take advice from the seller- they obviously have ulterior motives.

I believe his ulterior motive in forming this company was to profit off of my efforts.2.

The real estate agents that I've dealt with have been okay, but again they also seem to have their ulterior motives.  

Here's something for you to consider - don't worry, this isn't a sales pitch (my company doesn't lend in Florida, so there's no ulterior motive in my sharing this with you):You may want to look at the option of purchasing a multi-unit property (let's say a fourplex) and financing it with an FHA loan.  

There are ulterior motives behind this credit report request as well.

He doesn’t sell any courses so I trust his advice without suspecting ulterior motives He also talks about getting your real estate license  

Please reach out if you need anything, including guidance without an ulterior motive.

but, I personally find it unsatisfying and frustrating to have someone start a thread about them investing in RE syndication and asking other investors experience only to find that they have started the same exact thread many times in the past AND  after my exposure to their post....and then to top it off they are not even really investors, nor are they really going at the topic from an investor mindset, but, rather have a purely 100% ulterior motive of promoting their own syndication....AND to add injury to insult, they are really horrible garbage investments.My opinion of most accredited investors, is that trust is a key component for them, when investing in Syndication. if the networking technique is disingenuous, it just comes off as corny-time-share-tactics-manipulative base level conduct that is unappealing, untrustworthy and wastes time.I will say that all your points of essentially "caveat emptor" regarding ones own filter for things anywhere on the internet(including BP)are true, but, the benefit of micro-social media- climates like Bigger Pockets is that you get the benefit of other like minded, maybe even I dare say "smarter than me" individuals, weeding out what is the inevitable dissent into Craiglistification of said micro climate...meaning that eventually if all the post, or some critical mass of the posts, become of the aforementioned disingenuous type, the benefits of the this type of forum become less evident or more cumbersome and timely to get value from, and maybe even have negative return on time-equity.....IMHO

This doesn't come without an ulterior motive though.