It's easy to look at the national average home price from 2007 vs. now, but there are many more factors other than the cookbooks kept by the FRED.

They're great to give you a perspective. don't expect any recipes of success, it's not a cookbook, it's a book to change your thinking and grow rich and free.

Betty Crocker Cookbook.

If bet if you were willing to cough up the $300 and follow the lessons/guidelines you'd find a lot of value especially if you're the type that's good with instructions and cooking with cook books and such.

But I have read where he forgot to send off a check to the IRS and now he's making boyfriends in prison....That's funny, I too read both Cook books.

My experience with wholesalers has shown most of them are relatively inexperienced at business; may have attended a seminar where they were given a cookbook on how to conduct business {at least it seems that way when you compare pitches}; and have engaged in wholesaling because it was the avenue most fiscally available to them.  

I believe there's a ton they can teach me about these principlesB: Reading an Instruction Book: In this mentality, I am not thinking for myself--I'm just following step-by-step instructions and not really understanding why I'm doing what the instructions tell me to.I greatly prefer 'Mentality A' and feel that if I can consume the guru's content but focus on this bigger picture, I'll be well positioned to succeed.It's like the difference between learning the principles of cooking vs performing the steps in a recipe in a cookbook.

Seldom does the government like to give you a "cookbook" answer.

You need to buy some kitchen equipment, one or two of the good basic cookbooks like "The Joy of Cooking" or Bittman's "How to Cook Everything," and build a sustainable repertoire of 10-15 cheap, healthy dinners with a few variations each that you can put together easily and quickly.Better for your pocket, better for your mental health because it will help ground you, better for your love life because smart, capable people appreciate personal cooking skills in others.The top three expenses of the American household, as @Scott Trench's book taught me, are housing, transportation, and food.

It may have worked in 2010 but not in 2021.My suggestion would be to learn basic theory: cash flow, operations, marketing, wholesaling, notes, foreclosures, agency, law etc and then figure out what exactly you want to do, then seek out to launch and refine your method.There are cookbooks once you know what you want to do, but you dont need to pay a guru to spoon feed you.