Are we really here to discourage the people who are taking bold action and/or going after their dreams because we project our own fears on them or because we don't want to see them succeed because deep inside of ourselves, we want to invest internationally but don't dare doing and so the last thing we want is to see other people successfully doing it.I see repeated negative posts from the same people (not those who replied here thus far) from people in the international forum and I'm left wondering why they're hanging in the international forum if they're negative about international investing.By the way, even though I totally disagree with him on this matter, I have to command @John Carbone for writing in all honesty "I haven't researched ...

Now some of those 2nd generation children are at an advanced age and passing away so ownership is passing to the third generation grandchildren, resulting in smaller and smaller ownership stakes for each succeeding generation as it gets split between more people.One of the 2nd generation owners with a 5% ownership stake recently passed away, leaving 1.67% ownership to each of his three children (the 3rd generation). 

Though they have lots of info, strategies, and tools to help you succeed, it's nothing you can't get for free just by browsing the forums here.

He started in the business to provide extra funds to his church.Point is he started at a later in life succeeded fairly quickly and had honest motive to fuel his success.

You don't always succeed in a short sale.

I believe it's probably genetic.But basically I think the vast majority of people need and want to be led by the hand, to be told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and limited to a finite amount of disposable funds.Creating, managing and growing a business is really just a lot of hard donkey-work and most people just aren't interested in working that hard.And I don't believe anyone has ever truly succeeded at doing something they didn't enjoy doing.

I have been to several other events from other "gurus" and I can tell you that Robyn is by far the most genuine and is the most invested in helping her students succeed.

It's an area where a lot of people try to get their start and although while many will succeed, others unfortunately will not and can give wholesalers as a whole a bit of a bad imagine.My advice?

The DOR can take their sweet time deliberating whether your assessment is fair or not costing you a ton of money as opportunity cost even if you do succeed in the end - very unlikely (lost seller, longer turnaround, etc.)

Peception is everything, and with this being the case we can clearly see why so few succeed in RE.