There MUST be some secret sauce!

There's no secret sauce here. 

Ok, here it is, I will broadcast my tripple-diamond "secret sauce" recipe: (A) exposure, Exposure, EXPOSURE.

Apparently the term is now applied to people, such as real estate educators, who claim they know something that you need to know or will suffer without such knowledge; the formula to the secret sauce, if you will.

Isn’t that the secret sauce the gurus teach.

Generally, for the optimal refinance, these are top of mind for BRRRR strategy investors:Return of capital: The key “secret sauce” of the BRRRR method is to build portfolios using the same capital over and over—which relies on getting your basis (or more) back on the refinance, where basis refers to the money you invested in the property (down payment and cash used for renovations).Speed: Refinance lenders use the term “seasoning” to refer to the amount of time (typically in months) between the purchase of the property and the refinance.

The secret sauce, is really just lead generation.

Everyone wants to compare the nominal APR with the actual interest rate of the HELOC, but that is comparing apples to tomatoes.

It sounds like they are telling you to trust them, but not willing to show you the details on why you should trust them but that it is their 'magical sauce' that makes things work.

They will bicker about whose spot has more sunshine, other tenants or neighboring kids will steal their tomatoes, someone will swipe the cute little solar spinning flower from one of the gardens, some tenants won't take care of their plots and they'll look like hell, some will use chemicals the other tenants will complain about, someone will steal the hoses.