I’m realizing that it’s easy to get caught up in the things that don’t matter as much when you’re first getting started and it can distract from what you’re really trying to do.

Even if that were true (and it's not), property management is a crushing distraction from your main job as an investor of finding great deals!

I highly recommend separating the seller & buyers page since the messages are different.And most of the time a simple squeeze page will work better for getting seller to fill out a form rather than having buncha pages to distract them.

Many on this forum would probably advocate not even going to college (just a guess), because they would view that as a distraction (time and money) to pursuing your own path.I think you need to look at your MBA as an investment and then run the numbers. 

I seem to become very easily distracted with many different real estate niches.

I'm willing to be proved wrong, but don't want to distract the thread.Tim

Period.To be successful you have to put away the distractions and. the shiny objects and focus on what I teach you, The biggest thing is negotiating with the seller about a win-win dealif you are BP junkie and you have to read everything 24 7, you're not ready for coaching.Laser focus is required.If you do it my way, you pay one coaching fee for  one year and keep 100  percent of your profits.

But it seems to have moved from a healthy debate to a non-productive thread as so many of these unfortunately turn into in the end which ends up losing the point all together and becomes more of a distraction instead of a tool for readers to use.Again...the point of this thread, as it started, was not the Guru Tools themselves, but simply questioned the timing to which those tools are being offered to new investors in training and the manner in which they are offered (published yet not guided) I believe...though I could be wrong!

Don't mean to distract from the mail trail but I thought the reverse was  the case. 

They are what I refer to as shiny objects of distraction".There's a famous expression for this, "Penny wise, pound foolish", or this one, "Stepping over dollars to pick up a penny".