Not sure if you're trying to be helpful, or just belittle the new kid, but my perception is the latter.

And if they're coming from that perception, then I can only guess that they believe that what they do is take advantage of other people's ignorance.

Skagit county realestate investing group. Free no charge to join found them on yahoo. Finally to a chance to go to the meeting it was amazing. We went out after for dinner and networked it was a great time.

My perception of it is barbaric.

So, I would say that if your friend has a VERY REALISTIC perception of how hard you need to work to generate leads, he can certainly start building his business part-time.

I do believe you need to fix your perception that you have "no extra income" before you can dive in.

Interesting to see how my attitude, perception of investing, and confidence has changedalso, if anyone else happens to stumble across this post this is proof that biggerpockets works. as of today I have 8 SFR and a 24 units MF.

I doubt having a brand or web address will change others perception of "Flippers".

It might have prevented me from establishing the account at all depending on the advice I received and my perception of the complexity.

If you're stumbling over your words or your conversational flow is choppy because you're trying to read a script then you aren't giving the perception that you know what you're talking about and that you are truly a solution to the sellers problems.2. you don't sound trusting.