I'm new to this site, but not new to real estate.I'm currently a Realtor & InvestorI specialize in Brazoria county, but travel up to Houston a few times per week.I'm an active Realtor and enjoy helping investors find properties both for the purpose of rental and for flipping.  

Keep your eyes on the prize, which is reinstating in a timely and cost effective manner for your purposes.  

My lasting advice is- always get referrals from other buyers of a company (rather than people promoting the company) and don't ever feel like you need to jump out of a situation really until money needs to be put on the table.

But again, you must show the additional office outside of the home is absolutely necessary for administrative and purposeful reasons.

I don't think the promotion of their ebooks and Pro memberships are "GURU" upselling at all.  

While I know the 50% rule isn't always a direct measurement of things, for this purpose I am going to assume it is.

Pooling general funds is at least an order of magnitude harder than presenting single-purpose deals.  

Originally posted by @J Scott:I want taking sides...just happened to see that article this morning...I really appreciate how you continue to assume that this online "community" can handle opposing or conflicting views for the purposes of having a discussion or learning something.  

I was recently contact by a guy who works for a Hedge Fund that wants to hire me to work with him to acquire real estate.What is the purpose for these Hedge Funds when it comes to Real Estate?

I have a separate checking account just for this purpose works fine and best of all it's instant!