Diving under the ice was the most beautiful thing- and finding gold on the seafloor and being watched from the shadows by a spotted ice seal- that said though, the people striking it rich out there were doing it in the form of tv contracts, not so much dredging.  

To think that this all started with watching "flip or flop", that lead me to googling wholesaling, that lead me to a ton of youtube video, which lead me to BiggerPockets which eventually lead me to my 1st deal.

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Don't know anything about the course or mentor program, but I've been watching a lot of his youtube videos and he has some interesting stuff out there.

I bid on the same type of auctions but I spent a long time researching and watching them when I had free time before I ever bid. 

Sterling, I have noticed that a lot of people go out a buy a note or two after seeing a guru at their local REIA meeting, or watching an online video.

One I fondly remember was - after putting out post-it notes on doors in a the Phoenix market (using a contractor) - we got a call from a woman that was SCREAMING at us (voicemail) and saying that she now felt that we were stalking her, maybe watching her, wanting her house when she had NO INTENTION of selling it and, now she felt she could no longer stay there, she had called the police to report us, etc.  

Here's something I found on CNN that talks about markets where buyers have the upper hand.

And watch out for all the get rich quick gurus and scam artists out there who will tell you it is easy to do.

its a baseball term referring to a pitch that is so low, the batter thinks its a ball, but it just barely comes within the strike zone. the ump calls it a strike and the batter never swings. funny thing about these lowballs that no one swings at........ they never get a home run from them either. as a pitcher, if you never throw a lowball, you never get that strike on the batter. as abat ter, if you do not swing at the low ball, you are never gonna get a hit either. you need to throw that low ball once in a while and see if that batter swings at it. getting started again is hard, but you already know some of the game from trying a previous time. so, you should have less fear going into it this time around. you have watched all the podcasts, read all the books, now get out there and do what you want to do. no one stays in school their entire life, you have to get out there and apply what you have learned or all that learning is useless. get out there. if you fall on your face, then get back up. the only way to learn to do anything right is first learn how to do it wrong. then you know what not to do. good luck to you