You can force appreciation by rehabbing and such - so that might be a shorter term way to go?  

The truth is that you have to SPEND 20K to go to their school and learn the ropes.

Quote from @Don Miller: Block on site, scheduled to go vertical next week.Updated timeline:Lot purchase Feb 2022Permit approvals August and Sept 2022Hurricane Ian Sept 2022Lot cleared Nov 2022Underground plumbing and slab April 2023Block delivery July 2023 I commend your patience. 

However I decided to go with a course by https://learntitlesearching.co...If anyone is interested in knowing how it goes feel free to ping me!

Obviously you are trying to go down that track.So go to as many meetups as you can.  

Lack of down payment, lack of entrepreneurial personality, low tolerance for risk, looking for the magic key that fits their desires, just want to learn, sold "Castles in the sky" with a gibberish of disconnected statements that while true in a plethora of instances do not add up to truth in any one instance, fear of failure meaning not able to take a financial loss without going into poverty, never told up front how much money they will need to spend to buy the investment in addition to paying for the class.

It may be too late.yup stop payment.. also for future reference if you cant pay cash for these kind of educational events don't do it.how are you going to do business if you have to charge this to even get started.. this is the very thing that really bugs me about the real estate education sector in the US>. talking people to go into credit card debt when they know full well only 10% or less of folks that try this or any kind of wholesaling / flipping/ notes / lending etc will do anything .. and especially if you have no capital.

its most unfortunate that you had to go through this deception and theft from someone who is considered a professional in this business. we definitely appreciate you putting the warning out about this character. as hard as it is to find a reliable experienced contractor nowadays its even harder to find one that's not a crook and a liar and that's truly pathetic.   

The biggest 'danger' I've experienced in the coaching space was coaches who took the cash and wanted me to follow 'their' program rather than coaching me where I am to get where I wanted to go. 

Long-term single or small multifamily rental would be our strategy to go.