Here are some bullet points: Real Estate Mentorships can be great for speeding up your education in RE investing Real Estate programs can help build new profitable relationships that one otherwise would not have had (such as with successful people) Real Estate Mentors often will not tell you how difficult/saturated/competitive the industry is Real Estate Mentors often won't tell you how unlikely you are to succeed (similar to the music/entertainment industry) Real Estate Mentors will often talk down on corporate jobs, even though many corporate jobs have less stress and better pay than running your own real estate wholesaling/investing business (especially when those jobs are commissions sales jobs) Real Estate Mentors are highly incentivized not to tell the whole truth b/c it does not benefit their income to do so (i.e. - telling the whole truth would mean less mentees signing up for their $10k programs and therefore less money for them)Real Estate wholesaling is similar to the music/entertainment industry in that there is a very low barrier to entry and only a few who will succeed (regardless of how hard he/she works)Please note that I am not trying to be negative here.

Let's quickly list the "bullet points", which you speed readers out there should appreciate.The Great Recession of 2008-2012 hit real estate harder than any time since the Great Depression.

It could be done faster, cheaper and have more positive effect than California's high speed rail from L.A. to almost San Francisco.

If you purchase a deal that cash flows well you could put that cash flow toward speeding up the debt pay down(if you wanted).

It speeds things up a lot.

You speed up your investing by about 5 years working with someone who knows creative financing.

As for flips and buy & hold properties, they are still selling at impressive speeds and investors are definitely taking advantage of the market.

But most investors use a mentor or coach to be trained, just because it speeds up the learning process so much.

It also speeds up the purchase process -- I had the money in hand and closing took place in days, not weeks or months.

The wall is useful to slow down the speed of water coming down the hill and preventing erosion, from the picture.