Spend at least 2 hours per day researching online about your desired investment strategies.

Managing 17 shopping centers and selecting sites for new developments is no small feat—kudos to you!

This way the broker can search hundreds of lenders (Including Easy Street Capital) instead of just hoping that one lender can get you a good deal.A direct lender can work very well for Conventional loans, but if you were hoping to get a good deal I would look elsewhere Or you could search for hundreds of lenders here on BP or online yourself and avoid paying broker fees..

(The Black Friday sale on the Bigger Pockets bookstore was where I did my own Christmas shopping so my family knew what to ‘buy’ for me!).

Check out other online guides available here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides3.

I too, have looked seriously into the many, many, online Real Estate Guru’s that are offering one on one training.

While these vendors are typically reputable and skilled, you might not get the best price compared to shopping around directly.

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.