Producing the job on time and on budget was part of the estimate and if we made both of those goals we were paid a bonus. 

Even if all you could do is delay the down payment, you would still benefit as the income should have produced more capital for you over the two years using OPM.

Real estate can be a way to generate some long term wealth by investing CASH into income producing properties and holding them for the long term.

Profitable rentals produce net profits AFTER depreciation.

I'm not a believer in the "produce the note" issue.

However, if I had $3.6M, I'd leverage it up with $10M worth of income-producing real estate.

Again, this will produce many leads, but for the wrong reason, often unqualified.

That's exactly the idea of buying leveraged, income-producing properties.But even in that case, the interest you pay isn't a "tax benefit".

By the time I had finished reading and listening to everything in it I was in the same league as the top producers yet newcomers were joining a Caldwell Banker type company and getting a training manual I would throw in the garbage.

For Shark Tank they are just covering their behinds (Especially with Cuban being an Executive Producer and going through an insider trading case right now).The show does not want to take responsibility of the viewing public trying to contact the presenters and then investing, losing money, and coming back to Shark tank and suing them for the loss.Interestingly, to even appear on Shark Tank you have to give the show I think 2-3% of your company.