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".

There is so much to find on this site, and so many ways to be profitable in real estate, that I kept getting distracted by new things.Since you are in the area, why don't you join us at the Metro East Real Estate Investors Association meeting this Monday?

Hi Greg ,Good luck on your venture and I plan on following you and learn all I can , I'm looking foward to what you have to say I am a newbie to this also and I want to learn as much as I can Keep up the good work and don't let anyone distract you from doing what you want.

This is all I am doing now, I do not deal with retail buyers and sellers at the moment, I tried to, but found it to be a distraction. so I would also need to figure out a way to cover my monthly expenses both business and personal asap.