Hard to get rid of a family that was scammed. 

I am not sure the company is trying to scam you, as much as trying to upsell high end services.

We have had many people laugh at us when we told about this. We had an agent who would send us some properties he thought were good buys from listings on FMLS. He accompanied us to the auction on 11/07. At the auction...

Joshua Manning there are two types of syndications. 1) single asset - one/few properties - easy to underwrite and a lot of transparency - think single malt whisky2) blind pool - pretty much a free pass for the sponsor to do whatever - most times this is where most of the scams are found since it’s hard for a LP to audit what’s going on.

I said okay, but we'll have to meet up to talk a deal and "This smells like a nigerian scam btw.

Just make sure its not a scam.

Is this a scam?

I think the realtors are so busy that a call/email from Israel might seem like a scam and not worth responding to.You should probably send a business-like email, introducing yourself, your objectives and state the capital that you have available to start investing in properties.

I’m running into a lot of scams and needing new direction.

Contact realtors, wholesalers, join Facebook groups (REIs, investment groups, real estate groups), search the Facebook marketplace for deals, look at Craigslist, and ask everyone you interact with (get good at idenitfying scams for all of the methods).