This is something that gets brought up in most of the Sunday "Seeing Greene" podcast episodes so that could be a great place to start. 

Listen to BP podcast episode 650

I guessed we watch too many episode of HGTV and this affected us in our decision making.

Look through the podcast archives for "newbie" or "first deal" episodes and start from there. 2.

This was just discussed in episode 233.

I started learning about REI a little over a month ago, and since have been reading as many books, blogs, and articles I can get my hands on, as well as making my way through the many episodes of the BP podcast and attending REI meetups in my area.

Just listen…Episode 283 Paul Thompson - Quite a new episode but I would think everyone would agree this is a top episode.

I'm a rather new real estate investor in the Denver area and listened to the recent podcast where Paul Thompson (episode 283).

I ran out of Felonious Florida episodes and was scrolling through iTunes when I stumbled upon BP at like number 15.

Also to get an idea of how these pump and dump due diligence or up front lender fee's companies operate simply watch the American Greed episode on  "Remington financial"