They survived inspections from lenders and I was able to sell them.I think what Mr Lau experiences is way more extreme, equivalent to a scam.

Hey Shravan.I was scammed by this same contractor.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/1167190-strug...Shot you a PM .

He is making these assertions to the sellers so that they sell their house to an inexperienced student that pay him thousands of dollars to learn his scams.

Your buyer list will always move a lot as there are many investors that do one flip and move out, but you have that a good start joining to Facebook groups, though be careful of the scams around it too.

I think they are either running a scam or an airbnb out of my home. 

I would not buy something that needs mild renovation out-of-state as a brand new investor as you will not be able to manage it and will pay 4x the cost and it will take much longer and you are likely to get scammed if you have not built a proper funnel.

I have been looking into several "guru" mentoring programs but I am skeptical they all sound too good to be true, and some downright scams.

But it turned out that the " Buyer" was trying to scam me and the owner.

If you saw from the search (in case others didn't do the same), he's a scam artist.

That is about right for pricing, IMO this whole lead thing is a total scam, just and income generator for the city