A couple years ago Joshua Dorkin asked for video submissions on this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Awesome video!

When I “chose†my mentor, I didn’t want to learn from the most successful business person, I wanted to learn from someone who had a passion for their business and still was able to live off of the income.

They just like helping other people.Fact is, you could learn almost everything in the world from books, videos, and the Internet, all without the aid of any teacher or mentor.

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I ask the buyer if I can take pics and video, then I upload the video to Youtube and then blast the property to my buyers they get clear photos and a wonderful video.  

I have knowledge about real estate and investing through books and videos but that is pretty much it.So the question: to buy or not to buy in the bay area?

We limit our guests to 1 Gb of data per day - plenty for surfing the Internet, but not enough for streaming video.  

Watching his RE instructional youtube videos I've learned a wealth of information that would easily cost 1000's of dollars alone at seminars, meetings etc.

the training as an aside.. private money lenders are NOT looking for newbies generally and are not sitting at home waiting for a guru to call and say they have a new student.you can simply talk to your local HML which is who you would use anyway if you need capital.as for learning the business there are a myrid of ways to do that.you can go to e bay and buy any and all guru course and videos for pennies... spend a few hundred on those and sift through the information.there is just so much hype that people can go from not knowing anything about real estate to be financially independent in a few short months.. and folks simply don't know what they don't know this is a long game a very long game.. and depending on were your living and working it can be very very difficult without substantial cash already.. areas of the North east and mid west you can deal in SFR's like used cars because they sell for that. if your west coast based.. much tougher