Not to offend Anybody but I know also Real estate is a Up and down business my family is been in Real estate for 4 Generations so, a lot of mentors are has beens, which made a lot of money or maybe just gained a lot of experience, and some exaggerate what they really did, like many people do and that is fine, some do it just for the pleasure of helping and who doesn't want a little extra cash flow my business is based on the Mentoring kind of, since I am Consultant for some big private equity firms, and private individuals but I share my knowledge for free with some cool guys some other guys who think they are super cool themselves if you know what I mean I charge them a lot cause I don't want to be dealing with them if I am not getting paid, I am sure there is many different kind of people that do it for many many reasons. but just remember not everybody that wrote a book on how to flip houses is millionaire, and not everyone who became millionaire wrote a book on flipping house is a tricky industry, I am glad you have had a good experience when I was studying to get my RE license way back when I was 18, I had a professor who brag about living beachfront, brag about selling 10-15 homes per month, and I was very confuse why does he teach a night class at community college so I look into it as any young kid would do and it was all a big lie....Ps: we love Downey, was one of the first areas my family build on south Downey 25 years ago   so watch out @Tommy Martinez

Stick to those idea's and nothing more.The other thing to remember is to couch things in terms of either getting pleasure, or avoiding pain.

@Ben Haner It's my pleasure to connect and network with like-minded individuals as yourself!

I've also had the pleasure of living in Southern California and New York City.I heard about BP from several people in local real estate groups and online.

The dressage/hunter/jumper set tend to be a bit more primadonna-ish when it comes to their horses being turned out, the stock horse folks (including the pleasure folks) slightly less so.

My pleasure.

But you also get the pleasure of meeting so many interesting people.

It was truly a pleasure working with you on your acquisition. 

It's a pleasure to meet you.

My pleasure.