But how do I know if the guy promoting it was legit or just trying to make a dollar?

If you just put a listing/zillow lead under contract, then promote it as a wholesale deal with same exact terms plus a wholesale fee, you will just annoy people.

Since the tenants were low income, I somehow managed to convince them to waive the new connection fee as this would promote conservation and lower their bills.

Yep, Mike never intended to be aReal Estate Investor.... ...he and his brother are very successful electricians, owning MNR Electric, right here in the Polk County area and thought they would come to some PCREIA meetings, sign up to be corporate sponsors and just promote their electrical business to all the folks at our meetings.

Luis, you should receive an email from him sometime today following up with the webinar and promotions. 

In one post, you talk about how unethical and bad this guy is, but in this post you are promoting his book.

However, now we are running promotions of 5% management fees, and 30% leasing commission. 

Perhaps some of this was avoidable as far as promoting freedom number schemes. 

I'm in the national guard, and typically work in a full time status, but because I'm working through the commissioning(~promotion) process, I'm unable to work for the short term future until I get a reservation for a training slot and complete the training.

I promoted local events in Orlando for him to my local investor community.