The investor gets funding for cheaper than hard money and the money is revolving for the term (in the form of credit cards at 0%), the group gets more students to mentor who couldn't otherwise afford the fees, and the financial company gets a bunch of new clients at 10% with little risk when the investors are getting walked through flips that earn thousands of dollars and are doing deals weekly.Am I looking at this scenario through rose colored lenses or is it really to good to pass up?

Along with not paying some lady 10% to manage the place :-)

Hello Marc,I did something similar and stopped with 5 mortgages once the market here in Portland rose so high it no longer penciled for SFH's. 

I've been doing leases non-stop, as referrals for another lady I helped find an inexpensive condo but those aren't worth it to me, they're a lot lower than I'd like and I want to get into the luxury market.

The agency lady that attends my local real estate meeting can help post this. 

The lady who does hard money loans is my husband's friend's mom.

Faster than you can blink.I manage nearly 400 properties in NC and it is SO easy to get tenants out, there is no reason to be messing around with this lady.

We'll be getting together next Thursday at The Rose in White Oak at 6:30Pm.

I personally don't lie to sellers, I don't trick old ladies, honestly if I saw that the old lady needed as much as she could get I'd pass the deal to my agent and cut myself out the deal.

If you signed a contract with Old lady Smith to buy her house for $40k, with the intention of selling it to me for $50k because I can rehab it for $20k and sell it for $100k, what's my $5k "non-refundable deposit" getting me?