As I mentioned I finished my post graduate education 50 years ago, so my experience may not be so relevant in today's world, with so much of the information we received in college courses available on line for free.  

Sometimes these types of deals require that you purchase a software to help search for lots,so we'll see.Most of the time,established people in industry are not going to come online and scam people,why would they ruin their own business in the offline arena?

Use online tools like Rent Savvy, Avail, Rent Redi, Apartment.com, Angie, Thumstack.... to manage yourself and learn. 

Tax shelter schemes, partnerships with foreign partners and accounts, partnerships with hundreds of members, returns with blatant mistakes, entities in questionable businesses, like gambling, drugs, online video sales, escort services.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

A property manager that can assist with rent collection, tenant screening, maintenance, and run an online ledger for us to track expenses.

You can also find reliable, more than worthy, creative, legal and ethical basic as well as advanced real estate courses on line!

I would never form an entity with them when I can do it online with a firm that charges a fraction of what they charge).

Write a book about it, utilize paid internet ads to drive book sales, follow on with YouTube videos, webinars, blog casts, on line tutorials, and sell a few one on one coaching sessions.4.

That was their words- not mine.I remember watching a video done by the National Real Estate Investor Association online interviewing Ohio ( I believe) real estate commission.