private&a_aid=4f2d...I would say this confirmed what many people here know about what a scam a lot of guru courses are, but I don't feel like I can trust him...Because he's a guru. mind=blown. 

Sucker terms ---  Wire money up front  ---Florida based company  =  Scam  you will most likely pay the 4k  and the lender will decline to fund your loan on some made up BS and you will be out your 4k... this is a very OLD scam I first heard of it with my dad back in the early 70's usually bigger deals like lenders saying they will fund developers.... you submit a package your a wannabe have no real money but found this great 10 million dollar deal... you respond to lenders that say they have 2 to 25 mil to lend they talk a great game .. then they hit you up for 20 to 50k for up front due diligence they fly out kick the tires lead you on.. then never fund... this is just a smaller version of this I would almost 100% guarantee.

I don't think it's a scam they're registered with the BBB and don't have many complaints, and for the complaints they do have they responded to them, and dealt with them so that's a plus (You have to keep in mind it's not the amount of complaints you want to look at it's how they responded to them that's important) I know another company called TCS foreclosures that's doing the exact same thing as Ameraco, but they want $10,000 to start.

Please try to refrain from using the line: "A friend of mine"...it's like all of the scam e-mails from Gurus, trying to push-up each other, in their joint-marketing pitches...sorry, that's just my take on it.

There are too many legal cases being carried out against scam artist and they're all going to jail which I completely agree with, however, we as investors are guilty by association even though we may fly straight.

That sounds like some type of scam.

So I was reading through Josh's post here:http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/1/blog_posts/4157-don-t-fall-for-the-scam-be-cautious-about being cautious about who you do business on via the site and there is commentary in the comments section about having an approved vendor section.

I just joined the site after reading the post about Zach Chilress Automated Real estate scam.

@Victoria Lee I live in a city (Atlanta) where there are a lot of sharks and scam artists in the real estate business.  

I became convinced that anyone claiming to make money in RE was a fraud & scam artist.Then I found this site and slowly my faith was restored.