They send out mass communication regarding distributions as not all their investors purchased their parcels with SD accounts (some paid with cash/after-tax funds).

I completely understand how this "Host" could experience these issues, and I can sympathize with their frustration for what it takes to earn "SuperHost" status (for the record, my company does not maintain SuperHost status, but at a mass of 1000+ reservations annually that is not a realistic metric to achieve). 

Do NOT follow the masses.

In my efforts to get into the REI field I came across this site 2 family home with large barn/apartment in the back in a very small town of north central Mass that is about 25 Minutes from Amherst, Greenfield and 50 Min to Worcester.

First thought, is the real estate for distressed, or motivated sellers that low that those "investors" are really making money from their materials on the masses new to the business?  

I'm pulling muscles just thinking about the numbers.  

She did offer me a chance to sign up for her short sale seminar for a $1,000.Matt Desrochers:I heard alot of people from various REIA's in Mass refer him to other investors as an "Investor friendly" Attorney.

They then send out mass emails introducing themselves to these said people expressing their investment criteria and setting up a phone call.

None of them have their own money involved, they have a list of 2800 or so they say, investors that they mass email out a property, they usually get from the one off deals from unsuspecting students who bring in deals in hopes for a collaboration.

If you sell education to people who get excited by a TV show or some mass media, and have your top students testify as to their success, thereby proving the material works, you're going to have a lot of people who never take the shrink wrapper off the course or leave the couch but are unhappy with the (lack of) results of the training.Don't let BPers tell you otherwise; there are secrets in real estate investing!