I’ve had a mentor who was happy to share his learnings and experience with me because I genuinely took interest in his opinions and respected his guidance (and I never asked him for money!). 

Plus he and his team genuinely want to help people succeed in both life and business.

As someone who has a knowledge of *one* market, I'm genuinely seeking advice on evaluating other markets.

You might find one of their stories resonates and gives you something to start to work towards. 

You are going to have a lot of trouble finding financing options with a 2nd lien and to 100% make up a purchase price (i.e. 100% debt financed with no equity or down payment "skin in the game") as part of your payment.I'd recommend looking in the "Creative Financing" subforum if you want to explore potential ways of doing this but frankly it is really difficult to find a genuine "shortcut" that wont end badly for not investing any of your money at all.BRRRR Method remains IMO the best for this but you still have to put some of your own capital to use during the process

I genuinely want to find the rationale behind the 5%-6% commissions.David Greene's explanation for this is that "probably 95%-98% of the times that a Realtor helping clients, they don't get paid for...You have to compensate them enough so they make enough to support themselves for all the people that are not paying them."

I do agree that the sales copy that my partners on the education side put together seems like the typical push/promotion, which doesn't resonate very well with me..

In light of the above explanations, The information below vividly illustrates the repayment schedule for the loan.MONTHLY LOAN REPAYMENT PLAN* Loan Balance: $325,000.00* Loan Interest Rate : 3%* Loan Term: 20 Years* Monthly Loan Payment: $1,802.44* Number of Payments: 240* Total Interest Paid: $107,586.13* Total of 240 Payments: $432,586.13NOTE: The monthly loan payment was calculated at 240 payments of $1,802.44In good fate, If you fully agree to the terms ,condition and repayment plan you will get back to us with a scan copy of any form of id card for verification because your loan is undergoing approval by the board of directors in and a positive result will be out soon,you will be approve of your loan after finding all information are genuine if otherwise you will be declined of your loan so applicant are advise to provide real information for easy approval of loan to them....

He was of course incredibly convincing, has mastermind meetups, and seemed very genuine, but at the same time seems to be a very good salesman.

But he has not ripped me off with repairs & is genuinely a nice guy.