The problem is that the story was over hyped and too many people did it.

Their books are some of the best ever written on real estate, but I'd recommend leaving the wallet at home so you don't get caught up in the hype and make a decision at home if you want to pay for more.

Wholesaling is  a difficult, over hyped (mostly by guru types telling you it’s easy because they are trying to sell you something), mostly unethical endeavor.

I'm intrigued by the potential that is out there but am having a challenge in filtering through the hype that comes with every "system" or "guru" out there.

They usually over hype their ARV price and the wholesale price.

It’s an introductory that gets you hyped up to spend $10,000 to join a community.

@Mike Lambert that reminds me, the calculators and numbers that developers or sales agents tend to give are often inflated, hyped, not conservative in their calculations, or make any number of assumptions that affect accuracy.

But all the hype and promises are rarely realized.First some background.  

With that said, I take it that all the quit your job talk is all hype then?

I think there are two valid points here.If you want to grow the business and your wealth faster use leverage. it can add more risk but you will get a better return in the majority of places.If your goal is to retire with as little passivity as possible don't get all caught up in the hype of you need a good return that's important yes but it isn't your primary goal in that sense it is stable income for as little work as possible. high dollar hours vs smaller dollar hours.If you have 10 paid off duplexes that cashflow 16000 a month and net 8000 that is a hell of alot less work then 40 leveraged duplexes that provide the same income just better returns in potential appreciation and better equity pay down. in one case you make 6 figures with probably 10 hours of work a week most likely alot less if you are good at managing and selecting tenants and in the other case you would work 4 times as much for the same income soaking up all that valuable time you could spend with family or other activity your like(passion hobby ect.)