For these people to concentrate their savings into one or only a few RE investments without extensive knowledge, will, ability, or desire to be hands on at any point in their REI career is foolish IMO.

Reasonable thinking would indicate that concentrating on pay it off and not accumulating more is preferred rather then thinking that investing is a path to getting out of debt.

I was just concentrating on someone saying minimum lending requirements being $50k. 

You need to outsource your mailings and concentrate on building a business, not being a "worker bee".

Until the states take a concentrated effort to police this ... it won't change..

Now this is my opinion and what I will say when it comes to getting involved with a mentor or "guru" program:People who could benefit from a "guru" programPeople who do not need to go into debt in order to pay for the programPeople who already have some experience but not too much experience that they already know all the ins and outs of most real estate investing strategiesPeople who know how to succeed and have a good success record in other areas of lifePeople whose learning style is more of a seminar format rather than a self-learning coursePeople who do not already have a network of investors they know and who value networking with investors who invest on higher levels (such as the trainers, etc.)People who would rather pay money to shorten their learning curve and dedicate concentrated effort to learn from someone who has been successful in the fieldPeople who probably shouldn't do a "guru"programPeople who have to go into debt to pay for the coursePeople who think that by paying for the course that the "guru" or mentor will do most of the work and that it will be easy once they go to a coursePeople who don't have money over and above the cost of the course in order to start using the strategies right away.  

For me, my business has been concentrated in certain areas for a few years and we now manage a little over 2100 properties.  

320-acre development set to take off by airport "The city of College Park is launching a $500 million-plus mixed-use development on 320 acres, with potential to create thousands of jobs and representing a major step in making the region’s “Aerotropolis” vision of concentrated development around Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport a reality.The development site is on the north side of Camp Creek Parkway, west of Interstate 85 and Hartsfield-Jackson and across from the Georgia International Convention Center.

Originally posted by @Patrick Walthall:I've been very active in the real estate game just not active on BP and I was concentrating on things I shouldn't be. 2 weeks ago I met @Joe Scaparra while searching for multi-family homes here in BCS.

You would want to concentrate on your strengths, which is programming- activity that brings your big bucks, versus dabbling in something that is not your strength and something that doesn't make you money.