When I attend real estate meet-ups I am seeing a minimum of 20% of female attendees.

When I started my own local real estate meetup about 4 years ago, I didn’t realize how much it would help me network by default - it’s much easier to network when you’re the host vs being an attendee.

Several of the attendees were previous graduates of his intensive $30k event and they had known him for years and made money with him I can go on but suffice it to say that the $30k I spent with him for the four full intensive days (with 9 other people who paid the same) were life changing both personally and financially.

They strongly discourage all attendees from listening to experienced investors (EI) that aren’t in the Big Dog Program: The EI could give them bad information; The EI thinks he knows it all; The EI is dangerous and is not to be trusted; The worst advice is Bad Trusted Advice.

It raised the annual premium some but it was a lot cheaper than the umbrella policy and I ended up with more coverage than before.Go to a local real estate meetup and ask the attendees who's the best insurance person in your local market and go get their advice and rates!

Regarding real estate investors groups in general, generally half the attendees have never done a deal and many are there for the first time so you are certainly welcome.The Columbia meetup is next Wednesday Dec 11.

Also, every attendee I spoke with was serious about the topic of Notes and wanted to help everyone they interacted with.At one point Travis or Aaron mentioned how people who operate with integrity tend to stick together while people who don't operate with integrity also tend to stick together.  

 My Husband and I are just now starting with real estate investing and we  went to a live event this past  weekend put on by Phil Grove and his wife - it was very informative and was very well planned and smooth ( I'm a professional sales person)  it was fun to see the whole sales pitch unfold for the coaching program - knocking out the objections throughout the presentation before they come, building value, taking people into their pain and getting to the WHY , giving information while all at the same time saying everything for a reason without coming off like a salesperson,  and then the cherry on top was  to see how they charge an enormous amount of money to sell a program just to have the students go out and do the marketing to bring him and his team deals to partner on, the big picture of his business was an amazing master mind project - I was really impressed from a sales stand point I felt that it was very smooth and done with class, class because they really did make the event informative which is something that is lacking at most of the meetups I have attended, although most of the info was to train the attendees enough to be able to go out and market to bring in deals for them to partner on - I was actually very  interested in the program but they are asking  a SIGNIFICANT amount of money and were not exactly clear on exactly what you get for it other that the "network"  which he did mention many times that your network is your networth  ;-) .

@Jon Saputo   one way you can probably get this information from the horse's mouth is to go to any one of the plethora of RE investing clubs in the greater LA basin and just network with other attendee's there will no doubt be many who have purchased out of state and would be able to give you feedback..

What is lacking in my opinion, specially for new investors and attendees of "guru seminars" is having the GUTS of just making offers.