Sometimes things get a little contested in here and its helpful to see what people may agree (or disagree) with by casting their vote, rather than a cumbersome written response saying "I agree" or a regurgitation of what is agreed with.

Newbies trust and regurgitate information.

People are more likely to talk to a person than a machine, and you control what data you get from each caller without being tied to the phone all day.As a disclaimer, I have no experience with direct marketing myself, I just saw an opportunity to regurgitate useful information from a book I just read ;)

$5 k for 8 30 min phone calls by a random person regurgitating Internet videos?

You CLEARLY have 0 clue what your talking about, and at best google things and regurgitate a basic google search. 

They are absolutely making more money selling regurgitated information that actually practicing.

A small sample number is just one, another is that these people likely had a bad experience and were not pros but beginners and lost, or perhaps they have never invested in real estate and are regurgitating the media spin that is so common (real estate is risky, hard to sell, expensive to maintain, non liquid like stocks, and the other goes on).

As far as owning another property, financed another way, seems legitimate; again only regurgitating what I've read as I have yet to "practice what I preach"

When I'm hearing noise/or regurgitated info.... and when the information is practical and fully explained!

It is a scam to get you all pumped up and excited and then pull out your credit card to buy there expensive seminars and training programs which are regurgitated info you can find for free from real life investors right here on BP.